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An' crooked thus ~~~~~; see how significant an' suggestive, if I may say so; no humbug all fair an' above-board, as the pirate said, when he ran up the black flag to the peak. My object in takin' up the pen, neffy, is two-fold, 'Double, double, toil an' trouble', as Macbeath said, if it wasn't Hamlet.
When life becomes nothing but facts it won't be worth living; yet in a few years the race will have no imagination left. It is being educated out. Look at the children. When I was young the bogey man was as real to me as pa and nearly as much to be feared of, but just yesterday I was lectured for merely mentioning him to my neffy. So with ghosts.
My object in takin' up the pen, neffy, is two-fold, "`Double, double, toil an' trouble, "as Macbeath said, if it wasn't Hamlet. "We want you to come home for a day or two, if you can git leave, lad, about this strange affair. Minnie said she was goin' to give you a full, true, and partikler account of it, so it's of no use my goin' over the same course.
"DEAR NEFFY, I never was much of a hand at spellin', an' I'm not rightly sure o' that word, howsever, it reads all square, so ittle do. If I had been the inventer o' writin' I'd have had signs for a lot o' words. Then round would have bin far better O, like that.
"DEAR NEFFY, I never was much of a hand at spellin', an' I'm not rightly sure o' that word, howsever, it reads all square, so ittle do. If I had been the inventer o' writin' I'd have had signs for a lot o' words. Just think how much better it would ha' bin to have put a regular D like that instead o' writin' s-q-u-a-r-e. Then round would have bin far better O, like that.
'E's earned 'is class. It don't come to a chap in the night. 'E's got to slave f'r it slave 'ard. Ho, yuss! Your neffy can ride, an' 'e can s'y wot 'e likes, but if 'e ain't modeled on Billy Garrison 'isself, then I'm a bloomin' bean-eating Dutchman! 'E's th' top spit of Garrison th' top spit of 'im, or may I never drink agyn!"
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