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"Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Ground" Summary
The first story sets the reader up for a rollicking, romping set of short stories. In it, the reader sees that the two children come from Chicago, where they have never really seen violence or death. As Joey says, "we'd yet to see a stiff." In this episode, the children get to see their first corpse, and the reader gets a first view of their outrageous grandma.
Mary Alice suspects that her and Joey's parents are just sending them away to get some free time without children, but Joey doesn't mind because they get to go on the train. As the kids suspected, the first couple of days visiting their grandma are pretty boring, but soon an adventure happens, the death of a local character, Shotgun Cheatham. This death is all the news in the small town now that the gossip about the children's arrival to Grandma Dowdel's has died...
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