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Then quite an old woman passed by, also robed or disrobed in the prevailin' fashion, and Josiah sez, soty vosy, "I should think she wuz old enough to know sunthin'. Who wants to see her old bones?" And he sez to me, real uppish, "Do you think them things know enough to vote?"
When Josiah see it drawin' nigh he sez to me, soty vosy, "Never, never, will I ride in a hearse; I wouldn't in Jonesville and I won't in Italy; not till my time comes, I won't." But I whispered back agin to keep still, it wuzn't a hearse. But, to tell the truth, it did look some like one, painted black as a coal. But, seein' the rest of us embark, he, too, sot sail in it.
She is kinder romantic in spots, and Josiah hearn her and said, soty vosey, to me, "You won't ketch me weepin' over any tooth unless it is achin' like the Old Harry." But I kinder wanted to see the tooth.
I hearn one man say," sez Arvilly: "'O Lord, thou knowest by the morning papers, so and so. I d'no as a prayer turned off by a wheel would look much worse or be much less acceptable." Josiah looked encouraged, and sez he to me, soty vosey, "Arvilly always did have good horse sense." Sez I, "They wuzn't run by machinery wicked, wicked way.
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