[Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley]@TWC D-Link bookSamantha at the St. Louis Exposition CHAPTER XI 9/20
How nateral, how nateral them noble yells would sound to their descendant females, the Daughters of the Revolution, and all the rest.
What would it be for us all to hear them axents, and it could have been done if Edison had been born sooner and that little box had been round. I didn't wonder that Blandina wuz enthused, it is enough to enthuse anybody that never has hearn it, she said she laid out to go every day three or four times a day and stay jest as long as she could. One of the most remarkable sights we see on the Pike wuz Jim Key, a horse that is valued at a hundred thousand dollars, who travels in his own private car.
A horse that can read and write, spell, understand mathematics, go to the post office, git mail from any box, give chapter and verse of Bible text where the horse is mentioned, uses the telephone, and is so intelligent you expect him to break out in oratory any time. Josiah wuz spell bound here, I could hardly tear him away.
And sez he: "The first thing I do when I go home will be to send the colt to the deestrick school." I told him the teacher wouldn't want him whinnerin' round amongst her scholars, and mebby gallopin' and snortin' round the schoolroom. But he wuz as firm as adamant in his idee.
And Id'no what I shall do about it.
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