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Nurse Caroline and Nurse Edna were picking apples, and Larch went a little way up the hill to speak to them. More of the upstairs fell into the kitchen; there was a sympathetic shriek from the twisted beams that still supported what was left of the porch roof. 'Good night, Curly!' 'G'night, _Burly!'_ young Copperfield cried. Oh yes—_her_ cervix, thought Wilbur Larch.

'Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life,' [98] Homer whispered to himself. He taught history, but he had no books. That night in August, the trees were full, the boughs bent and heavy, and the apples—all but the bright, waxy-green Gravensteins—were a pale green-going-topink. 'I'm not sure how Doctor Larch would feel about it,' Homer said.