[Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley]@TWC D-Link bookSamantha at the St. Louis Exposition CHAPTER X 15/18
And you could take a tram car and go through some of the loveliest seens in the Alps.
We stayed there some time. I have hearn since that them mountains wuz holler and they keep beer and stimulants there, Id'no how true it is.
But I sez, "If it is so it is symbolical of where such stuff and its dealers will find themselves if they don't repent, down in the dirt and the dark, keepin' company with the Prince of Darkness.
But I didn't see hide nor hair of any of 'em and don't know as there wuz anything to see." I kinder wanted to go into the Irish Village, and said so; I remarked that you could buy Irish linen and lace there right on the spot.
But Josiah sez, thrustin' his portmoney deeper in his pocket, "Id'no why we should go in there, we hain't Irish." But I sez, "Miss Huff said it wuz dretful interestin', Josiah, I'd kinder like to see it." But Josiah gin another deeper thrust to his portmoney and must have strained his pocket and sez in terser, hasher axents: "We hain't Irish!" And I sez kinder short, "Id'no as we're Alps." But I didn't argy there wuz so many folks round, wimmen have to choke off time and agin and conceal their shagrin' and their pardner's actin'. Miss Huff had told me a lot about it.
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