squirells

Updated: May 4, 2025

When I thought that fifty years ago the grassy prairie lay stretched out in green repose where now wuz the hard pavements worn with the world's commerce; when I thought that little prairie-dogs, and mush-rats, and squirells wuz a-runnin' along ondisturbed where now stood high blocks full of a busy city's enterprise; when I thought that little pretty, timid birds wuz a-flyin' about where now wuz steeples and high chimblys why, when I thought of all this in common readin', then the Skripter come in, and I sez to myself in deep, solemn axents

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the World's Fair