Josiah’s Alarm
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Abel Perry’s Funeral
List of Illustrations.
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| “Before they got it sot up” | 5 |
| “Raisin’ vegitables and flowers for market” | 9 |
| “I ketched Josiah a-figgerin’” | 13 |
| “A-comin’ up from the suller” | 23 |
| “George Washington’s hired man kicked at it” | 37 |
| “Josiah killed a fat turkey” | 45 |
| “A lawyer by perswasion” | 53 |
| “Alone, and lonesome as a dog” | 66 |
| “Abel and S. Annie selected one” | 74 |
| “It lay there by the side of the road, a great white shape” | 84 |
Josiah’s Alarm.
When we had the furnace put into ournew house, the man who built the house,and the agent who sold it, acted awfulskairt.
The agent talked dretful skairful. Hesaid we would be too hot. He said, “Inevery other respect it wuz a perfect furnace,only it would be liable to heat us up toomuch.”
By the contract Josiah wuz to give abig hefty price for the furnace, and thiswuz the one they brung.
Wall, finally the agent talked so muchabout the awful amount of heat it wouldthrow out that Josiah got skairt, and hesez,—
“I guess we had better get a smallerone, Samantha. How it would look tohave a sunstroke in the winter!” sez he.“It would mortify me to have one myself,or have you.”
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