"I suppose they thought I would feel kinder dull and melancholy like, on leaving my native land this way; and I must say I don't feel jist altogether right neither.
Ever so many things rise right up in my mind, not one arter another, but all together like, so that I can't take 'em one by one and reason 'em down, but they jist overpower me by numbers.

You understand me, Sam, don't you ?" "Poor old critter!" said Mr.Slick to me in an under-tone, "it's no wonder he is sad, is it?
I must try to cheer him up, if I can.
Understand you, minister!" said he, "to be sure I do.

I have been that way often and often.

That was the case when I was to Lowel factories, with the galls a taking of them off in the paintin' line.

The dear little critters kept up such an everlastin' almighty clatter, clatter, clatter; jabber, jabber, jabber, all talkin' and chatterin' at once, you couldn't hear no blessed one of them; and they jist fairly stunned a feller.