SAMANTHA’S SWORD OF TRUTH AND JUSTICE.
Wall, if you’ll believe it, it wuz the very next day I had a occasion to go to Jonesville for some necessaries; and Josiah wuz busy a-makin’ a new stanchil in the barn, so I sot off alone after breakfast with a large pail of good butter, and a cross-cut saw that Josiah had sent down to be filed, and the mair.
Wall, jest about a mild from our house is a old tarvern that has been fixed up and is used now as a sort of a half-way house between Jonesville and Loontown. Teamsters and sech stop there a sight to git “Refreshments for man and beast,” as the sign reads.
Wall, I had got most there when I see a man approachin’ me a-walkin’ afoot. And I knew him the first minute I sot my eyes on him.
It wuz Ellick Gurley.
It wuz Ellick Gurley.
And the very minute I sot my eyes onto his face Duty and Principle both hunched me up hard to tackle him in this matter.
Wall, most probble he had been hangin’ round for some time, for he knew me the first thing, and he come up to the side of the democrat wagon I wuz a-ridin’ in, bold as brass, and he sez:
“Is this Josiah Allen’s wife?” sez he.