Och, ach, it’s a friendly place
BACK in Europe, funny-sounding place-names such as Ramsbottom emerged slowly out of the feudal mulch. Not so in Texas. Here, names came as suddenly as the settlements. Admire the wry humour of the pioneer who called his new home Grit. And pity the macho cowboy who, thanks to an effete ancestor's whim, has to admit he hails from Twitty.
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