Whitcomb Locomotive Company

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    “A-list’nin’ to the witch-tales ‘at Annie tells about,
    An’ the Gobble-uns ‘at gits you
    Ef you
    Don’t
    Watch
    Out!”
    —James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916)

    “I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the box house hills and cry.”
    —Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)

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    —Walter Pater (1839–1894)