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You know, they all do; and I sha'n't stand no chance at all if I don't." My groans was fearful that I groaned at this; but truly, worse was to come. But yet his love did not soften the firm resolve that wus spread thick over his linement as he went on, "I lay out to get lots of votes with my green apples," says he dreamily.
Says I, "Wouldn't it be better for the people to pay that dollar in the first place into the Treasury, than to let it filter through the dram-seller's hands, and 2 or 3 cents of it fall into the National purse at last, putrid, and heavy with all these losses and curses and crimes and shames and despairs and agonies?" He seemed to think it would: I see by the looks of his linement, he did.
They looked dretful dejected and onhappy as they come to this conclusion, my pardner looked as if he wuz most ready to bust out cryin'. And as I looked on his beloved linement I forgot everything else and onbeknown to me I leaned over the railin' and sez: "Here is sunthin' that no one has seemed to think on at home or abroad.
Sez I, "Wouldn't it be better for the people to pay that dollar in the first place into the treasury than to let it filter through the dram-seller's hands, a few cents of it fallin' into the national purse at last, putrid and heavy with all these losses and curses and crimes and shames and despairs and agonies?" He seemed to think it would, I see by the looks of his linement he did.
And I could see that though his linement looked pale and worn a deathless light shone in his deep kind eyes and I knew he wuz endurin' as seein' Him who wuz invisible. As we walked on he said, sadly pintin' to a barren lookin' spot sown thick with graves, "In this deadly climate the Drink Demon has little to do to assist his brother, Death.
I could see that he dreaded the sufferin's for me and for the nation if the Hon. Josiah Allen was elected. But still, he seemed to hate to speak; and wise, cautious conservatism, and gentlemanly dignity, was wrote down on his linement. Even the red rosebud in his button-hole looked dretful good-natured, but close-mouthed.
He looked all round the room and up and down as if in hopes he could see someone layin' round on the floor, or danglin' from the ceilin', that would take the responsibility offen him, and in the very nick of time the door opened after a quick rap, and the President jumped up with a relieved look on his linement, and sez: "Here is the very man to do the errents."
I spoze my dretful emotions showed on my linement, and to git my mind off she sez, "You ort to see the aligators."
And it wuz thrillin' in the extreme though I stood it better than he did. The first thing you see is a submarine boat, you can see this plain from the Pike and the passengers embarkin' on it, two hundred and fifty can be carried by this boat at one time, and Josiah led us onto it with a excited linement, but he tried to look brave and fearless.
Well, Id'no which it is, but 'tennyrate as Molly sot there with me lookin' as wan and pale as a white rose on a cold November evenin' she told me the whole story, hid from her own folks but revealed unto a Samantha. Josiah may say what he's a mind to, but I believe it is the natural nobility of my linement that drawed it from her.
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