[Samantha at the World’s Fair by Marietta Holley]@TWC D-Link bookSamantha at the World’s Fair CHAPTER XIX 16/37
I spoze it is a sight to see it. But Josiah felt that he couldn't afford to go in and see the sight, and he sez, "It is only a hole with some fire and ashes comin' out of the top of it." I sez ironically, "Some like our leech barrel, hain't it, with a few cinders on top ?" "Why, yes; sunthin' like that," sez he.
"It wouldn't pay to throw away money on ashes and fire that we can see any day to hum." I didn't argue with him, for I never took to volcanoes much--I never loved to git intimate with 'em.
But it wuz a sight to behold, so Miss Plank said--she went in to see it.
She said, "It took her breath away the sight on't, but she's got it back agin (the breath); she talked real diffuse about it.
But to resoom.
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