[Co. Aytch by Sam R. Watkins]@TWC D-Link bookCo. Aytch CHAPTER I 2/55
Well, one man by the name of (I think it was) Rhett, said it out loud.
He was told to "s-h-e-e." Then another fellow by the name (I remember this one because it sounded like a graveyard) Toombs said so, and he was told to "sh-sh-ee-ee." Then after a while whole heaps of people began to say that they thought that there was a north and a south; and after a while hundreds and thousands and millions said that there was a south.
But they were the persons who lived in the direction that the water courses run.
Now, the people who lived where the water courses started from came down to see about it, and they said, "Gents, you are very much mistaken.
We came over in the Mayflower, and we used to burn witches for saying that the sun rose in the east and set in the west, because the sun neither rises nor sets, the earth simply turns on its axis, and we know, because we are Pure( i)tans." The spokesman of the party was named (I think I remember his name because it always gave me the blues when I heard it) Horrors Greeley; and another person by the name of Charles Sumner, said there ain't any north or south, east or west, and you shan't say so, either.
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