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And I sez soothin'ly: "Like as not and 'tennyrate how I would love to hear Snip bark out a welcome to us once more." "Yes," sez Josiah, "it will be the happiest hour of my life when I behold Snip and the cat and the children and grandchildren and the rest of the Jonesvillians once more."
His mind had been stretched too fur, for the size on't, so I sez soothin'ly "Wall, wall, Josiah, come back to bed and go to sleep, and to-morrow we'll go and see some live stock and some plows and things." So at last I got him quieted down, though he did murmur once or twice in his sleep Apollo! Hercules! etc., so I see what his inward state wuz.
I sez, "It is very grand and spacious." And he sez, "I'd give the hull of the space and throw in the grandeur for a good big fire and a plate of your nut cakes." But I sez soothin'ly, "It is sunthin', Josiah, to live in a palace;" and I drawed his attention to the mosaic work on the floor, and the massive furniture covered with inlaid work.
But I sez soothin'ly, "I shan't want to stay so long at any other place."
Did I ever expect to witness such a seen? No, oh no," I sez. "What do you spoze is goin' on inside of that great roarin', blazin' monster?" Sez he, "I know what's goin' on inside of me; I know I am jest starvin', faintin' away fur want of food." "Well," sez I soothin'ly, "when we get back to the Volcano House I will ask for some bread and milk for you." "Bread and milk!" sez he bitterly.
Polly is big an' strong like I states; but her eyes is like stars, an' she's as full of sweetness as a bee tree or a bar'l of m'lasses. So Polly camps down by my couch of pain an' begins dallyin' soothin'ly with my heated brow. I commences recoverin' from them attacks of b'ars an' dogs instanter. "'This yere Polly Hawks ain't none new to me.
And I sez soothin'ly, "It hain't the worst thing that could happen to you. A offer of marriage hain't like a attack of yeller fever, or cholera, or even the janders, nor," sez I, "it hain't like losin' friends, or a plague of grasshoppers, or " And I spoze there hain't no tellin' onto what hites of eloquence I might have riz to cheer her up.
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