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"'I'm a sort sort of connection, says I with my expirin' breath. "He looked at me as if he couldn't quite see the connection. 'Well, says he, 'here we are, and they're expectin' you, for there's a lady waitin' on the platform. "'A lady? says I, risin' from my tomb.
And I sez, "My own pardner. I am Josiah Allen's Wife." And as I sez this, bein' very polite, I kinder bowed my head, and he kinder bowed his head too. We appeared real well, both on us. And sez I, "We feel it dretful, the passin' away and expirin' of one of your folks." And sez he, "You allude to Senator Stanford?"
Truly he could not forget how his bald head had been gethered in like a ripe sheaf, by 7 females, during that very walk, hombly ones too, so it had happened. But I sez nothin' in reply to this expirin' note of the crysis he had passed through, knowin' this was not the time for silver speech but for golden silence, and so we meandered onwards.
My victuals got moldy an' soft an' sticky, my appetite laid down an' refused to go another peg; 'I was just simply dyin' o' thirst, an' every single drop o' water we came across had a breath like the dyin' gasp of a coal-oil stove, expirin' for a couple o' fingers o' the stuff they float universities in.
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