mantelry-piece

Updated: June 20, 2025

But I sez slowly and firmly, and as much like a heavy weight as I could "It is three hours to train time. Set down and act like a human bein' and a Methodist, and tell me what it is you want to do." He glanced up at the clock onto the mantelry-piece, and he see I wuz right about the time. And he sot down, and sez he "That is jest how I want to act, like a Methodist, and a equinomical counsellor."

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the World's Fair