[Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley]@TWC D-Link bookSamantha at the St. Louis Exposition CHAPTER XIV 17/24
Some of these Moro girls are quite handsome in their bright striped mantillys, their long hair hanging down under their gay turbans.
One of these villages is on land and one built on bamboo poles over the water.
Jest open sheds covered with nipa leaves.
Anyone with rumatiz couldn't stand it in 'em. But what took Josiah most of all wuz the tree dwellers, their houses are built up in the highest trees they can find, and they git to 'em by ladders they pull up after 'em; as he looked on 'em I see in Josiah's reminescent eye dreams of summer housen in our ellums and maples, and I hurried him on.
Blandina said she could be perfectly happy up there with a congenial companion, and I knowed she wuz thinkin' of Aspire Todd; but she never could git him up there, for his tongue is the strongest part on him. We all admired the Native Scouts; they live in a little village of tents in a beautiful piece of woodland.
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