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That it existed only in his crazy brain. Wall, it wuz jest about as wild a idee that Ferdinand had to listen to; I d'no that he wuz any more to blame than they would be for not hearin' to it. But Isabelle, she wuz built different. There wuz some divine atmosphere of Truth and Reality about this idee that reached her heart and mind.
I hearn one man say," sez Arvilly: "'O Lord, thou knowest by the morning papers, so and so. I d'no as a prayer turned off by a wheel would look much worse or be much less acceptable." Josiah looked encouraged, and sez he to me, soty vosey, "Arvilly always did have good horse sense." Sez I, "They wuzn't run by machinery wicked, wicked way.
I d'no who the old man wuz; there wuz broad white wings a-risin' up all round him, and it might be he wuz meant to depicter the Recordin' Angel; if he wuz, he could have got quills enough out of them wings to do all his writin' with. And it might be that it wuz Wisdom instructin' youth.
Why, if you'll believe it and I d'no as I would blame you if you wouldn't, it bein' a fish story, as it were but we did see some fish-hooks from Pompeii that had been buried 2000 years, and come out fish-hooks after all a good deal like them Josiah uses in Jonesville creek.
And I thought mebby I could get a tulip bulb I had had such poor luck with mine the year before. But sez I, "Mebby they won't have none to spare I d'no how well they be off for 'em," but I spozed mebby I would see as many as a dozen or fifteen tulips, and as many roses.
Th' executors was kind o' fool people, both on 'em I d'no' what possessed Jason Doble to choose them for 'xecutors, when he might ha' hed the pick o' the State lunatic asylum an' got some fools as knew something; but so 'twas, an' I s'pose so 'twas meant to be.
A big crowd wuz gathered round him of human bein's in all strange costumes, and camels and their drivers, and dromedaries, and donkeys, and everything else under the sun. But this man stood calm under the sights and ear-piercin' yells and jabbers. And in some way, I d'no how, nor Josiah don't, he wuz a-holdin' another Japan or Turkey anyway, one of them foreign men suspended right up in the air.
But, after all, I d'no what I should do without my pardner I think the world on him, and have loved to think I could put out my hand any time and be stayed and comforted by his presence. I should feel dretful lost and wobblin' without him," sez I, with a deep sithe, "though I well know his sect's shortcomin's.
But I spoke right up, and sez, "He is a good-hearted creeter, Uncle Sam is, but needs a adviser time and agin, and not bein' willin' to let wimmen have a word to say, I d'no what will become on him; bime-by mebby he'll see that he had better hearn to me."
"I d'no," sez Arville, "whether it will take so much more work or not; it is most of it run by water-power and electricity, and water keeps on a-runnin' all day Sunday as well as week days. "Your mill-dam don't stop, Miss Cork, because it is Sunday."
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