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Samantha at the World’s Fair

CHAPTER VI
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to go to it, and the rest of the country, I would ruther not have it take place at all than to have it open Sundays." "And I feel jest so," sez Miss Henzy.
Then young Lihu Widrig spoke up.

He is old Elihu Widrig's only son, and he has been off to college, and is home on a vacation.
He is dretful deep learnt, has studied Greek and lots of other languages that are dead, and some that are most dead.
He spoke up, and sez he: "What is this Sabbath, anyway ?" We didn't any of us like that, and we showed we didn't by our means.

We didn't want any of his new-fangled idees, and we looked high-headed at him and riz up.
But he kep right on, bein' determined to have his say.
"You can foller the Sabbath we keep right back, straight as a string, to planet worship.

Before old Babylon ever riz up at all, to say nothin' of fallin', the dwellers in the Euphrates Valley kep a Sabbath.

They spozed there wuz seven planets, and one day wuz give to each of them.


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