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Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition

CHAPTER X
8/18

Josiah's liniment wuz some clouded till his mind wuz took up by seein' some horses with hats on which truly wuz needed in that torrid heat, and he forgot his temporary shagrin in visions of the future.
Sez he, "The first work I do when I git home will be to git a hat for the old mair; I won't have to buy one, Tirzah Ann's last summer hat will be jest the thing.

You know that one trimmed with red roses and shiffon and long lace streamers.

Your hats ain't dressy enough; why the old mair hain't quite twenty-one, hain't old enough to vote even if her sect had the privelige.

She's young and ort to dress young.

That hat will be jest the thing.


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