“Yes,” sez Josiah, “if these wimmen and girls would take some of the silk and gauzes that are straingin’ down on the ground to cover up their nakedness they would look better, enough sight.”
Sez I, “You hain’t obleeged to look on ’em.”
“Well,” sez he, real impatient, “put girl blinders on me if you want to, but I have got to look round some till you do.”
I DRAWED HIM AWAY AT A GOOD JOG, AND WALKED HIM INTO WHAT I THOUGHT WUZ A PLACE OF SAFETY.
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And I sez, “We will go into the booths and trade a little.” Here he groaned pitiful, but I reminded him that the Heathen had got to be helped some by us, and he sez, “That Heathen has more done for him than I have, enough sight.”
CHAPTER XIX.
