understandin'ly

Updated: May 20, 2025

But the cars tooted jest then, and I didn't hear his last words, and I wuz glad on't, as I say, I had thanked him before. But good land! he would have carried two giraffes or camels willin'ly if he could have got 'em into his buggy, and sot 'em up by him on the seat, and could have boasted to 'em understandin'ly about Chicago. But I guess he is well-meanin'.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the World's Fair