[Samantha at the World’s Fair by Marietta Holley]@TWC D-Link bookSamantha at the World’s Fair CHAPTER VI 6/17
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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