The Yeah. Welcome back everyone. The one001 classic short stories and tales.

This is your host, John Haggadorn.

I've got a fun story for you today from Henry Kiler Bunner.

Bunner is one of the humorous geniuses of American literature. He's just as home and

clever verse as he is at a brief short story. Among his best stories we've done a

few rather recently, one called the Love Letters of Smith, another called the Nine Sent Girls.

Both excellent short stories.

Today we give you our aromatic uncle

by Henry Kiele Bunner. Enjoy.

This story is from his collection, love in old clothes and other stories.

It is always with a feeling of personal tenderness and regret that I recall his story,

although it began long before I was born,

and must have ended shortly after that important date,

and although I myself never laid eyes on the personage of whom my wife and I always

speak as the aromatic eagle. FC Bunner

In those days would seem so far away, and yet the space between them and us is spanned by a lifetime

of three-square years and ten.

Life was simpler in all its details. Yet such towns as

Boston, already old, had well-established local customs which varied not at all from

year to year, many of which lingered in later phases of urban growth.

In Boston, or at least in that part of Boston where my wife's family dwelt,

it was the invariable custom for the head of the family to go to market in the early

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