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"Wall," sez I, "that is a good reason why I should keep on with it; the girls can help me if I don't get it off before they get here." And then he sez, "Miss Minkley is a-comin', too, and the Elder." "Why'ee," sez I, "Josiah Allen, why didn't you tell me before, so I could have baked up somethin' nice? What a man you are to keep things; how long have you known it?" "Oh, a week or so!"
Sez I, and I spoke it right out before I thought sez I "Why'ee!" sez I. "For the land's sake!" sez I, "has there been a funeral, or anything? And are these the mourners?" sez I. "Are they stoppin' here to warm?" For it wuz a cold day and I repeated the words to myself mechanically as it wuz, as I see 'em file up the path. "They be mourners, hain't they?"
"Why'ee!" sez I, "you mustn't do it; you must let me lend you some money." "No, mom; much obliged jest the same, but I am a-goin' to canvass my way there. I am goin' to sell the 'Wild, Wicked, and Warlike Deeds of Man. I calculate to make money enough to get me there and ride some of the way, and take care of me while I am there; I may tackle some other book or article to sell.
"Wall," sez I, "that is a good reason why I should keep on with it; the girls can help me if I don't get it off before they get here." And then he sez, "Miss Minkley is a-comin', too, and the Elder." "Why'ee," sez I, "Josiah Allen, why didn't you tell me before, so I could have baked up somethin' nice? What a man you are to keep things; how long have you known it?" "Oh, a week or so!"
And they said "they had been in Chicago some five weeks." "Is that so?" sez I. "And how have you enjoyed the Fair? I spoze you have seen a good deal, if you have been here so long." Sez Drusilly, "This is the first time we have been on to the Fair ground." "Why'ee!" sez I, "what wuz the matter?"
And my pardner jest turned on his tracks, and disappeared round the buildin'. A bystander who wuz a-standin' by spoke up and sez: "That is Governor Markham, of California." "Why'ee!" sez I, "is that so?" and then the thought come to me that the pityin' Providence that had removed Senator Stanford from my encouragement, and warnin', had throwed this man in my way.
Sez I, and I spoke it right out before I thought sez I "Why'ee!" sez I. "For the land's sake!" sez I, "has there been a funeral, or anything? And are these the mourners?" sez I. "Are they stoppin' here to warm?" For it wuz a cold day and I repeated the words to myself mechanically as it wuz, as I see 'em file up the path. "They be mourners, hain't they?"
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