My great-great-grandfather, Hatevil Allen, bought it of Ohbejoyful Gowdey, and the papers wuz signed the very day the other momentous purchase wuz made.
"There wuz fourteen children in the family of old Hatevil, jest as many as there is States in the purchase they are celebratin' to St.Louis.
"And another wonderful fact old Hatevil Allen paid jest the same amount for this farm that our Government paid for the Louisiana Purchase." "Do you mean to tell me, Josiah, that Hatevil Allen paid fifteen millions for this farm.

Will you tell me that?
You, a member of the meetin' house and a deacon ?" "Well, what you might call the same, it is the same figgers with the six orts left out.

Great-granther Allen paid fifteen dollars for this piece of land, it wuz all woods then." "Another of these most remarkable series of incidents that have ever took place on this continent, Thomas Jefferson wuz a main actor in the Louisana Purchase.

He has left this spear some years ago, and who, who is the father of Thomas Jefferson to-day ?" I didn't say nothin', for I wuz engrossed in my knittin', I wuz jest turnin' the heel of his sock and needed my hull mind.
"And," sez he, smitin' his breast agin, "I ask you, Samantha, who is the father of Thomas Jefferson to-day ?" I had by this time turned the heel and I sez, "Why, I spoze he's got the same father now he always had, children don't change their fathers very often as a general thing." "Well, you needn't be so grumpy about it.

Don't you see that these wonderful coincidences are enough to apall a light-minded person.