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And I thought to myself, if the Jonesvillians could see jest how she looked, and he too, it would be apt to make a excitement. How many times did I digest this great truth while on my tower! How little we know sometimes what a appearance we are a-makin' before men and angels, when we think we are a-doin' sunthin' wonderful!
"It would last a lifetime, Josiah, if I had to cook it; sticks and straw." "Well, it would be real uneek to cook one, or a hornet's nest, and would be a rarity for the Jonesvillians, and in the winter, if we run out of bird's-nest, you could cook a hen's nest." But I sez, "Keep still, Josiah, and let's see what we'll have next."
Tongue can't utter words to describe it; the pen hain't made, the egg hain't laid to hatch out the soarin' eagle whose feathers could be wrought into a pen fittin' to describe that seen. Why, I have thought when the mash got to burnin' down to the lake it wuz a grand sight; Jonesvillians have driv milds to see it.
But they wuz married safe enough, and happy as two gambolin' lambs, so they say. Any way Submit looks ten years younger than she did, and I don't know but more. I don't know but she looks eleven or twelve years younger, and Samuel, why they say it is a perfect sight to see how happy he looks, and how he has renewed his age. The hull affair wuz very pleasin' to the Jonesvillians.
I would like to see Ury try that on any of my lumber. And because we Jonesvillians wear black to funerals, they have to dress in white. Plow would I looked at my mother-in-law's funeral with a white night gown on and my hair braided down my back with a white ribbin on it? It would have took away all the happiness of the occasion to me.
Pickin' berries and pineapples while the Jonesvillians' fruit wuz snowballs and icesuckles; jest think on't! Well, Robert Strong thought we had better proceed on to Canton the next day and we wuz all agreeable to it.
Sez I: "No knowin' how many Jonesvillians will feel their religion a-wobblin' and tottlin' just by your example; naterally they would look up to a deacon and emulate his example do you stop it to once!" "No, Samantha," sez he, "Cap'n Bardeen and his father owns more cows than any other Jonesvillians.
"Wall, accordin' to your tell, they treat you like one, don't they?" "Yes," says he, "speakin' in a wild animal way." Says he, growin' excited, "I wish I wuz a African lion right out of a jungle: I'd teach them Jonesvillians to get out of my way.
The two foreign deacons from 'way beyond Jonesville, Deacon Keeler and Deacon Huffer, and our own three Jonesvillians Deacon Henzy, Deacon Sypher, and my own particular Deacon, Josiah Allen.
I spoze it will make talk, I spoze his folks will talk, and the Jonesvillians." "But," I sez, for I wanted to comfort her she's a good creeter Sez I, "Columbus had to wait before he sot out to discover us, till Grenada fell, and that made talk." Sez I, "Probable Columbuses folks talked as much as Bizer's folks will. But," sez I, "it wuz all for the best.
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