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All Answers from KingFisher907 wrote 36 weeks 5 days ago my grandpap likes to say he's "busier than a one-eyed cat watching 9 mouse holes"
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Yes | No | Report from KingFisher907 wrote 36 weeks 5 days ago my grandpap likes to say he's "busier than a one-eyed cat watching 9 mouse holes"
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After she had got into the boat she cried: "Come along, grandpap."
The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin James Herbert Walker
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Will, grandpap, and all of Alfred's relatives who had opposed his show ambitions previously, sanctioned his going with Professor Palmer's
Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden
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'Grandpap Campbells' '(We always called him grandpap instead of master, as the others did.)
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives Work Projects Administration
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You know when you went into the patent wash-board concern with Niblo and grandpap, you never told mother and when you got took in with Uncle Thomas on the patent shoe blacking, you said you would never enter into anything outside your business without asking mother's advice.
Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden
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Hit wasn't no ha'nt of Grandpap Peavey -- and yet hit wasn't grandpap hisself.
Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan
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Heading the procession was grandpap, wide flowing, white collar, hat in hand.
Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden
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"An 'yit ef Jude would ruther go -- and wants to slip out unbeknownst, why we wouldn't say nothin' about it, and jest tell granny and grandpap in the mornin 'that she left soon to git the boys' breakfast."
Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan
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After all had confessed to their inability to furnish another yard of material, Alfred advised that in the garret of his grandfather's home there was a large cedar chest filled with whitest linen, three pieces of which would close up the opening but he knew grandpap would not let him take it "caus 'he was a Baptis' and agin shows."
Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden
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