[Samantha at the World’s Fair by Marietta Holley]@TWC D-Link bookSamantha at the World’s Fair CHAPTER III 8/10
He didn't try to cloy up them Heavenly senses with whiskey.
No, indeed! "And Isabella now, if that likely creeter could be sot down in front of that long street of grog-shops, she would almost be sorry she ever sold her jewelry, she would be so sot back by seein' that awful sight." "O shaw!" sez Josiah, "she didn't sell her jewelry." "Wall, she wuz willin' to," sez I. "Id'no as she wuz.
She jest talked about it; wimmen must talk or bust anyway, they are made so." "How are men made ?" sez I dryly, as dry as ever a corncob wuz, after many years. "Oh, men are made so's they try to answer wimmen some--they have to; they have to keep their hand in so's to not lose their speech on that very account.
I presume Columbus knew all about such things.
He had two wives; he knew what trouble wuz." I see that man wuz a-tryin' every way to draw my attention away offen them long streets of saloons built up in Chicago, and I wouldn't suckumb to it.
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