Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

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Mariposa is the kind of town that is Irish to a man on St. Patrick's Day and flies the Stars and Stripes every Fourth of July. The local church is up to its dog collar in an insurance scam, and the local temperance movement all carry hip flasks. The long list of local characters includes all 280 pounds of Mr. Smith, the hotel proprietor, whose dominion is drink and "hospitality"; the Reverend Drone, who blames his old math teacher for his current debts; the undertaker, Golgotha Gingham, who is more at home with the dead than the living; and young Peter Pupkin, the suicidally love-sick junior teller at the Exchange Bank -- each a fondly drawn comic creation. The self-importance and eager gullibility of the townsfolk only serves to charm, and Leacock's gentle irony exposes the wily duplicity at work in a community where nothing is quite what it seems.

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