parabolickly

Updated: May 13, 2025

I can hear 'em whinner," says I, fillin' up the coffee-pot. "Calves don't whinner!" says Josiah. Says I, "I speak parabolickly;" and says I, in a very blind way, "Parables are used to fit the truth to weak comprehensions." "Wall!" says he, kinder cross, "your potatoes are a burnin' down."

Marietta Holley - Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician