onburden

Updated: May 21, 2025

She didn't have her crown on mebby it wuz broke and away to be fixed but her hair wuz combed dretful slick and stuck full of jewelled pins and stars, etc. I knowed her by her picture, and also by my feelin's, and I sez to myself, Now is the time for me to onburden myself of the important mission that had been layin' so heavy on my chist.

Marietta Holley - Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife