I wuz highly tickled to see him, for I had some errents for him, and wanted to advise him for his good, and I advanced with outstretched hand and sez "Mr.
President, I am delighted to see you!" He shook hands and said polite, "You have the advantage of me, mom." "Yes," sez I, "folks see your face in the papers." I mentioned my name and then went right on to say, "I wanted to tell you the first thing, I hadn't nothin' to do with that slightin' piece about you you probable read in the Jonesville Auger.

The Nation knew I had writ for it, and for the Gimlet, and I wuz awful afraid you'd think it wuz me, and be mad at me, but I'm as innocent as a infant babe.

Keturah Snyder writ it, and she's been through with trials enough to make her bitter but bein' so mad she sez things she can't prove.

Now she thinks you could kep' her from bein' turned out of the Jonesville post-office and you could keep the price of meat down.

No use arguin' with her, she sez you had it in your power to squelch some of the Trusts, and didn't do nothin' but talk.
"And that Post-Office scandal, she said she spozed you wuz goin' to make public samples of them stealers, but it all squizzled out, nothin' done about it, only jest talk.