ackosted

Updated: May 7, 2025

And Ardelia and I wuz a sittin' in a good shady place, and Josiah a little distance off, when a man ackosted him, a man with black eyes and black whiskers, and sez, "You look pale, Sir. What water are you a drinkin'?" And Josiah told him that at that time he wuz a drinkin' the water from the Immortal spring. "Drinkin' that water?" sez the man, startin' back horrefied.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at Saratoga