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The End Of The World

CHAPTER XI
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I shan't git skeered at no tin-horns, and as for papaw whistles, why, I say Jericho wouldn't a-tumbled for no sech music, and they won't fetch down no stars that air way." Here old Gottlieb Wehle, who had just joined the Millerites, came up.
"Yonas, you mags shport of de Piple.

Ef dem vaces in der veels, and dem awvool veels in der veels, and dem figures vot always says aideen huntert vordy dree, ef dem tond mean sompin awvool, vot does dey mean?
mean?
Hey ?" "My venerated friend and feller-citizen of forren birth," said Jonas, "you hit the nail on the crown of the head squar, with the biggest sort ov a sledge-hammer.

You gripped a-holt of the truth that air time like the American bird a-grippin' the arries on the shield.

What do they mean?
That's jest the question, and you Millerites allers argies like the man who warranted his dog to be a good coon-dog, bekase he warn't good fer nothin' else under the amber blue.

Now, my time-honored friend and beloved German voter, jest let me tell you that _on the coon-dog principle_ you could a-wound up the trade and traffic of this airth any time.


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