rinosterhorses

Updated: May 23, 2025

"Did they drive 2 of all the animals in the world in that house, uncle Josiah?" "Yes," says Josiah. "2 elfants, and rinosterhorses, and snakes, and snakes, and bears, and tigers, and cows, and camels, and hens?" "Yes, yes." "And flies, uncle Josiah? did they drive in two flies? and mud-turkles? and bumble-bees? and muskeeters? Say, uncle Josiah, did they drive in muskeeters?" "I s'pose so."

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

"And there we would be, all wore out with our job, and not pleasin' nobody, nor nothin', but makin' the hull caboodle mad as hens at us; and we a-not meanin' any hurt, none of the time, a-meanin' well towards Jonesville and rinosterhorses. Wouldn't we be in a situation to be pitied, Arvilly?"

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the World's Fair