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I hain't ashamed of the country no, indeed, I am proud on't; still I knew that it wuz, specially in June, noted for its tender greenness. And sez I, "I'll trust to the hour to inspire me; I'll sail out as his great ancestor did, and trust to Providence to help me out."
"On that there sailboat," sez he, pointin' to a thing about the size of a flat-iron with a knittin'-needle stickin' out of it. I give a little think, an' I sez: "To tell you the gospel truth, Bud, I ain't never been on a sailboat in my life; but I'm game to play her one whirl if you'll just wait until I get my breakfast." "How long will it take?" sez he.
Sez she: "She has plenty of brothers and sisters, and a home of her own, and why should she come here to torment you and father;" and sez she, "I'll talk to her, mother, I'd jest as leve as not."
"I fear it too," sez she, and she looked down on me with agony in her mean, and sez she "Good-bye, Sister Allen; if we don't meet agin, we both believe in a better country." I wuz all carried away by my emotions, or wouldn't spoke out so; but I sez "This country is all right enough, if folks didn't act like fools in it."
"Not ring the church bells on the Sabbath day?" His look wuz skairful in the extreme, but I sez "Yes, that is what I said, we beg of you as a Christian to not ring the bells in the mornin'." "A Christian! A Christian! Advise me as a Christian to not ring the Sabbath bells!" I see the idee skairt him. He wuz fairly pale with surprise and borrow.
"That's what they used to fight in," sez she. "They must 'a' been blame poor shots," sez I. "Why, I could shoot 'em through those eye-holes as fast as they came up, an' she don't even wear any head part with hers." Then an idea struck me: "But why don't you make a suit like her outside one?" sez I. "It comes below her knees an' yet she can ride in it all right."
Woodpecker, sez she, 's'posin' I cotch hold yer feet, an' try ter pull yer back dis way? 'All right, sez de Woodpecker; an' de Robin, she cotch er good grip on his feet, an' she brace herse'f up 'gins er bush, an' pullt wid all her might, an' atter er wile she fotch 'im thu; but she wuz bleeged ter lef' his topnot behin', fur his head wuz skunt des ez clean ez yer han'; 'twuz jes ez raw, honey, ez er piece er beef.
"Yes, most all the best citizens have joined the Help Union to fight against the Whiskey Power, though," sez Phila, "there is one or two ministers who are afraid of contaminating their religion by politics.
"Marse Sykes, he sez I gits eight dollahs a month, myself, an' Sally she gits fo'; an' den we hez tree pounds o' meat apiece an' a peck o' meal, each on us, ebbery week.
Well, that day they said his face fairly shone and he did the work of ten men." "That is because his heart is pure," sez I, "like that Mr. Gallyhed I heard Thomas J. read about; you know it sez: "'His strength is as the strength of ten Because his heart is pure. "And oh!" sez I agin, "how I would love to see him and Waitstill Webb married, and happy." "So would I," sez Phila.
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