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"If there wus ever a saint on earth, it is Elburtus Smith Gansey;" and says I, "If you try to vote for anybody else, I'll know the reason why." "Wall, wall! who said I wus a goin' to? I shall probable vote in the family; but he hain't no more saint than I be." I gin him a witherin' look; but, as it wus dark as pitch in the room, he didn't act withered any.
He never liked him, they fell out years ago about a rail fence, and wuz hurt. But now he acted furious, and his last words to Bildad wuz: "I want you to have a funeral for Deacon Gansey before I see you agin, and I'll pick out the him I want you to sing at his funeral: "Believein', we rejoice, To see the cuss removed."
He introduced him to me as Elburtus Gansey, my 4th cousin; and I made a handsome curchy. I s'pose, bein' up on the table, the curchy showed off to better advantage than it would if I had been on the floor: it looked well. I felt as if I should sink. But he took it the best that ever wus.
And Philander Dagget done it a purpose to keep Elburtus from the town- meetin', so his wive's brother would get the election. And, if I wus Elburtus Gansey, I'd sue him, and serve a summons on him, and prosicute him."
I wus whitewashin' the kitchen, havin' put it off while Cicely wus there; and there wus a man to work a patchin' up the wall in one of the chambers, and right there and then, Elburtus Smith Gansey come. And truly, we found him as clever a critter as ever walked the earth. It wus jest before korkuss; and he wus kinder visatin' round amongst his relations, and makin' himself agreable.
"You wus in the right on it, Samantha, he did asscend: he went up!" And agin he snickered loud. And says I coldly, cold as ice almost, "If I wuzn't a perfect luny, or idiot, I'd talk as if I knew sunthin'. You know I said that, as one who allegores. If you have found Elburtus Gansey, I'd say so, and done with it." "Wall," says he, "you wuz in the right of it, and that is what tickles me.
I am sure, I hope so; for a cleverer, good-natureder, polite- appearin'er creeter, I never see, nor don't expect to see agin in my life; and so I tell Josiah. The next evenin' follerin' after the exodus of Elburtus Gansey, Josiah and I, thinkin' that we needed a relaxation to relax our two minds, rode into Jonesville.
So I didn't spend no more strength a arguin', but kep' it to hurry up; and my reason is such, strong and vigorous and fur-seein', that I knew the better supper he had, the more animated would be his search. So I got a splendid supper, but quick. But, oh! all the time I wus a gettin' it, this solemn and awful question wus a hantin' me, What had become of Elburtus Smith Gansey?
Wall, when we drove in, I see Elburtus a liftin' and a luggin', a loadin' a big barrell into a double wagon for a farmer; and I says, "What under the sun is Elburtus Gansey a doin'?" And Josiah says, in a gay tone, "He is a electionerin', Samantha: see him sweat," says he. "Salt is heavy, and political life is wearin', when anybody goes into it deep, and tackles it in the way Elburtus tackles it."
That is often done by pardners of both sects, when they feel real guilty, to try to draw attention off their own misdoin's, by findin' fault with their pardners. It has been done time and agin, and I spoze will be, as long as man is man, and woman is woman. When I told him that I rid down there with Deacon Gansey, that man acted jealous and mad as a hen.
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