Samantha at the World's Fair by Marietta Holley
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I looked at him coldly--his nose wuz as red as fire--and I sez, "I hain't got no call to look at wine. [Illustration: His nose wuz as red as fire.] "I wouldn't give a cent a barrel for the best there is there, if I had got to consoom it myself. "Though," sez I, reasonably, "I wouldn't object to havin' a pint bottle on't to keep in the house in case of sickness, or to make jell, or sunthin'. "But I will not go and encourage the makin' of such quantities as there is there, I will not encourage 'em in makin' that show." He looked mad, and sez he, "I guess they won't stop their show because you won't go and see it." "Probable not," sez I; but sez I, real eloquent, "I will hold up my banner afoot or on horseback." And then I sez to my husband, with quite a good deal of dignity-- "Less proceed to the Wooded Island, Josiah Allen." But alas! for Josiah's hope of seein' sunthin' plain and simple. When we got there, that seemed to be the very central garden of the earth for flowers, and beauty, and bloom, and there it wuz that we see the most gorgeous rainbow--all made of pansies--glow and dazzlement. |
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