antymobile

Updated: May 2, 2025

I'd had my supper and wuz restin' in my room, Molly and Blandina had gone for a walk accompanied by Billy Huff, and Josiah had gone down to set with grandpa Huff a spell, when Aunt Tryphena come in and said a lady wuz there to see me; I asked her who it wuz, and she said: "I don't know, but guess it is some 'big bug trash, 'tennyrate she come in a antymobile that stands to the door without hitchin'."

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition