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Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition

CHAPTER XV
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No, I almost felt I should have Dave Yerden saw off the top of the whatnot because it riz up in a sort of ornamental fashion, and I almost despised the thought of the M.
E.steeple in Jonesville, to such wicked and reckless lengths will over-weariness lead one.

But jest as I wuz rebukin' myself to myself, I hearn jest on the other side on me the voices of Blandina and Professor Aspire Todd.

He wuz evidently continuing a conversation begun sometime before.
"Oh, that lost companion of mine! oh, that beauchious female so humilitous in her sweet humility, so super-conscious of man's superior attainments, she seemingly only existed to minister to my corporial necessities." "Well she might, Professor, well she might," sez Blandina.

"Any woman of right feelin' would feel only too blest and honored to do the same." "I experienced from the first moment my eyes rested on you," sez the Professor in solemn axents, "a sensation, or a feeling, as you may say, that you wuz my affinity, that your soul wuz congenial, and every transitory period of time that has progressively advanced since then has but intensified the impression." Though I couldn't see her, I could feel Blandina simper.

But at that minute Josiah interrupted the dialogue by askin' where Samantha wuz, and I come forward and jined 'em.


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