rapinin

Updated: May 25, 2025

"And it wuz so anxious to show off well before foreign nations. Wuz it any prettier sight to reel round before 'em, drunk as a fool, a-committin' suicide, and rapinin', and murder, and actin'? I wuz so mad," sez Arvilly, "that I felt ugly, and spoze I talked so." "Wall," sez I, "they've acted dretful queer about Sunday openin', take it from first to last.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the World's Fair