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Updated: June 11, 2025
But jest as my hand wuz on the nub he jumped up and opened the door, wearin' that boughten second-hand smile agin on his linement, and sez he: "Dear madam, perhaps Senator B. will do the errents for you." Sez I, "Where is Senator B.?" And he said I would find him at his Post of Duty at the Capitol. "Well," I said, "I will hunt up the Post," and did.
He bust right into tears as he said he had to refuse to do 'em. Whether they wuz wet tears or dry ones I couldn't tell, his handkerchief wuz so big, but I hearn his sithes, and they wuz deep and powerful ones. But as I sez to him, "Wet tears, nor dry ones, nor windy sithes didn't help do the errents."
"I know it," says I. "I told Dorlesky it would. But she feels jest so, and I promised to do her errent; and I am a doin' it." Agin he rubbed his brow in deep thought, and agin he says, "I don't think Dorlesky is unreasonable in her demands, only in the length of time she has set." Says I, "That is jest what I told Dorlesky. I didn't believe you could do her errents this week.
And he leaned his forward on his hand and sithed. But my looks wuz like ice-suckles on the north side of a barn. And I stopped his complaints and his sithes by askin' in a voice that demanded a reply: "Can you and will you do Serepta's errents? Errents full of truth and justice and eternal right?"
But she's suffered dretful from intemperance from the Rings and from the want of rights, and her sufferin's have made her more voylent in her demands and impatienter," and then I fairly groaned as I did the rest of the errent, and let the sharpest arrow fly from the bo. "Serepta told me to tell you if you didn't do these errents you should not be President next year."
Wonderful to meditate on the great onseen forces all about us, mysterious viewless shapes, nigh to us, helpin' us, journeyin' on errents of mercy to and fro on paths we can't see, leadin' up and down from star to star from heaven to earth mebby.
How many weak wills been strengthened. How many broken hearts healed. How many young lives inspired to nobler and saner living. But to resoom forward, I can't nor won't carry them errents of Serepta's there again. It is too wearin' for one of my age and my rheumatiz. What a tedious time I did put in there. It wuz a day long to be remembered by me.
I realized as I meandered along, that patriotism wus enwrappin' me from head to foot; for my polynay was long, and my head was completely full of Gass'es "Journal," and Starks'es "Life of Washington," and a few martyrs. I wus carryin' Dorlesky's errents. And my usial long green veil, with a lute-string ribbon run in, hung down on one side of my bunnet in its wonted way.
Wall, Dorlesky went home about 4 P.M., I a promisin' at the last minute as sacred as I could, without usin' a book, to do her errents for her. I urged her to stay to supper, but she couldn't; for she said the man where she worked was usin' his horses, and couldn't come after her agin. And she said that "Mercy on her! how could anybody eat any more supper after such a dinner as I had got?"
Silence rained for some time; and finally I spoke out solemnly through the rain, "Will you do Dorlesky's errents? Will you give her her rights? And will you break the Whisky Ring?" He said he would love to do Dorlesky's errents. He said I had convinced him that it would be just and right to do 'em, but the Constitution of the United States stood up firm against 'em.
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