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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:40 TUFF SIGHTS. beautiful in life and mean; they can spend their lives in jest as honorable and worthy a way as if they wuz a flyin' round, and make a good honorable appearance from day to day, till they begin to flop their wings, and fly-then their mean is not beautiful and in- apirin'; no, it is Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:40 TUFF SIGHTS. beautiful in life and mean; they can spend their lives in jest as honorable and worthy a way as if they wuz a flyin' round, and make a good honorable appearance from day to day, till they begin to flop their wings, and fly-then their mean is not beautiful and in- apirin'; no, it is fur from it. It is tuff to see 'em, tuff to see the floppin', tuff to see their vain efforts to soar through the air, tuff to see 'em fall percepitously down onto the ground agin. For they must come there in the end; they are morally certain to. " Now Ardelia is a sweet pretty lookin' girl, she can set down in a cushioned arm-chair by a happy fireside, with pretty baby faces a clusterin' around her and some man's face like the sun a reflectin' back the light of her happy heart. But she can't sit up ot the pinnacle of fame's pillow. I don't believe she can ever get up there, I don't. Honestly speakin', I don't." " Envy! " sez Miss Tutt, " glarin', shameless envy! You don't want Ardelia to rise! You don't want her to mount that horse I spoke of; you don't want to own that you see genins in her. But you do, Jo- siah Allen's wife, you know you do-" " No," sez I, " I don't see it. I see the sweetness of pretty girlhood, the beauty and charm of openin' life, but I don't see nothin' else, I don't, honest. I don't believe she has got genins," sez I, " seein' you put the question straight to me and depend a answer; seein' her future career depends on her choice now, I- mustSAMANTHA SPEAKS HER MIND.41 tell you that I believe she would succeed better in the millionary trade or the mantilly maker's than she will in tryin' to mount the horse you speak on. " Why," sez I, candidly, " some folks can't get up on that horse, their legs haint strong enough. And if they do manage to get Books, History~~General, Samantha-At-Saratoga~~Marietta-Holley, 999999999, Samantha At Saratoga, Marietta Holley, 1241288631, BiblioBazaar, , , , , BiblioBazaar<