thinks'es

Updated: May 20, 2025

Bub Smith wus well acquainted with the President's hired man, so he let us in without parlay. I don't believe in talkin big as a general thing. But thinks'es I, Here I be, a holdin' up the dignity of Jonesville: and here I be, on a deep, heart-searchin' errent to the Nation. So I said, in words and axents a good deal like them I have read of in "Children of the Abbey," and "Charlotte Temple,"

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