[Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley]@TWC D-Link bookSamantha at the St. Louis Exposition CHAPTER X 11/18
Jest think what a sensation it would make to the Jonesville fair.
The old mair is too old of course to git the trick." "Yes," sez I, "I guess her feet will never be lifted altogether from the ground till they are turned up in their last rest.
But I wouldn't try, Josiah Allen, to imitate that roarin' and rakish set if I wuz in your place, you a member of the meetin' house." "Oh, keep throwin' that meetin' house in my face, I should think you'd git tired ont but don't spoze you will." And Blandina sez, "Oh, Aunt Samantha, don't be too harsh on them happy young men, it is only their high sperits.
They would probable settle down and make the best of husbands if they had a tender and loving companion.
I wonder," sez she, "if they wuz took from life and if they're here to the Fair I do so like the looks of one on 'em, I believe we would be congenial." I hurried 'em along, the one she pinted out had his pistol raised the highest of the lot and he looked the most rakish. But you forgot the looks of the cow-boys as you stood at the entrance and got a full view of the Pike.
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