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And Josiah told me that "they wuz nobody he had ever neighbored with and didn't know as he wanted to." I guess Miss Meechim didn't hear him for she went on and said, "Athens wuz named from Athena, the goddess Minerva." And Josiah whispered to me "to know if it wuz Minerva Slimpsey, Simon's oldest sister."
And I sez, "No, this Minerva, from what I've hearn of her, knew more than the hull Slimpsey family," sez I. "She wuz noted for her wisdom and knowledge, and I spoze," sez I, "that she wuz the daughter of Jupiter." Josiah said Jupiter wuz nobody he ever see, though he wuz familiar with his name.
Well, when the news got out that I wuz goin' to visit Washington, D.C., all the neighbors wanted to send errents by me. Betsy Bobbet Slimpsey wanted a dozen Patent Office books for scrap books for her poetry. Uncle Nate Gowdey wanted me to go to the Agricultural Buro and git him a paper of lettuce seed. And Solomon Sypher wanted me to git him a new kind of string beans and some cowcumber seeds.
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