Along Way from Chicago

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Along Way from Chicago

• ByWill Boozer

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1929 Shotgun Cheatems Last Night Above Ground

• In this chapter, when Joey and Mary Alice visit,
  they find that Shotgun Cheatem has died.
• The only thing they know about him is that he was
  poor and didnt have a house.
• When the reporter comes to town and Grandma
  starts telling lies about Shotgun, Joey and Mary
  Alice get worried.
• Then Grandma starts talking about having a
  visitation at her house, and Joey and Mary Alice
  dont like it.
• At the visitation Grandma sees the tomcat go in
  the casket. When the audience looks and thinks
  Shotgun is alive, Grandma runs and gets the
  shotgun and shoots his dead body. The reporter
  was scared away and was never heard of again.

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1930 Mouse in the Milk

• In this chapter Grandma is determined to frame
  the Cowgill boys for putting mice in her milk
• The Cowgills are doing bad things in the month
  of July and since they deliver her milk shes
  going catch them
• She set a trap for the Cowgills and she caught
  them. She had Joey go get their parents which
  raced back to Grandmas house to see their kids
  held at gunpoint.
• She showed their daddy the mouse in the milk,
  which she did and they got their butts whipped.

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1931 One Woman Crime Wave

• In this chapter, Grandma breaks the law more than
  the law expected.
• First, she takes Joey and Mary Alice back in the
  fields of the county. They come to a fence which
  says, NO TRESSPASSING.
• They climb under anyway. The three then get in a
  boat and go down the river catching catfish.
• They past the sheriff and his drunk deputies
  which are singing half naked.
• Then they come to Aunt Puss Chapmans and feed
  her catfish.
• When the three get back home they feed the
  drifters beer and fish as the sheriff drives them
  out of the town

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1932 Day of Judgment

• Grandma competes in the Fruit Pies Cobblers
  competition at the fair.
• She doesnt win the blue ribbon, but gets one and
  lies to the pilot Barnie Buchanan so Joey can
  ride in an airplane for free.
• Joey finds out that Grandma had it all planned
  out from the time Mrs. Wiedenbach convinced her
  to compete

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1933 The Phantom Brakeman

• In this story, Miz Eubanks tries to keep her
  daughter under her control.
• Mary Alice hides Vandalia Eubanks in Grandmas
  house where she secretly dates Junior Stubbs.
• Miz Eubanks doesnt want Vandalia to leave on the
  train and the Stubbs dont want Junior dating
  her.
• Joey dresses up as the ghostly brakeman to stop
  the train and Vandalia and Junior climb on
  unnoticed.

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1934 Things with Wings

• In this story Ray Veech shows Joey how to drive
  at the price of 2.
• Joey and Mary Alice clean out the attic of old
  things to take to the rummage sale at the church.
• At the rummage sale, people notice initials in a
  hat and quilt that Grandma had brought to the
  sale.
• The initials on the quilt MTL stood for Mary Todd
  Lincoln, and the initials in the hat AB stood for
  Abraham Lincoln. Then everybody wanted to buy
  those.
• When Grandma tells them she found them at Effie
  Wilcoxs house they give Effies house back to
  her.

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1935 Centennial Summer

• In this story, Joey and Mary Alice find that they
  have to dress up like the old days.
• They dont like, but they do it anyway.
• At the talent contest Mary Alice and Ray Veech
  dance and win.
• In the parade Grandma claims that Uncle Grady
  Griswold is the oldest settler in the community.
• Uncle Grady Griswold and the bankers wifes
  daddy got in a fight of who was the best and most
  important fighter in a war.
• That was the last time Joey ever came back to
  Grandmas.

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1942 Troop Train

• Joey joins the army
• On the train towards boot camp he passes through
  Grandmas town
• He sees her and she waves, he waves back

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My Opinion on the Story

• The book was OK. I dont like reading at all, but
  this kind of book makes it a little worse. To me
  the book was not to funny and boring.