Samantha at the World's Fair Author:Marietta Holley 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: CHAPTER II. Wai.i., we all enjoyed havin' Christopher there the best that ever wuz. For he wuz very agreeable, as well as oneommon smart, which two qualities ... more »don't always go together, as has often been observed by others, and I have seen for myself. Wall, it wuzn't more than a week or so after Krit arrived and got there, that another relation made his appearance in Jonesville. It wuz of 'em on his side this time—not like Krit, half hisen and half mine, but clear hisen. Clear Allen, with no Smith at all in the admixture. Proud enough wuz my pardner of him, and of himself too for bein' born his cousin. (Though that Tickled wu/. He When Word Come. vuz onbcknown to him at the time, and he ort not to have gloried in it.) Hut tickled wuz he when word come that Elna- than Allen, Esquire, of Menlo Park, California, wuz a-comin' to Jonesville to visit his old friends. That man had begun life poor—poor as a snipe; sometimes I used to handle that very word "Snipe" a-describin' Elnathan Allen's former circumstances to Josiah, when he got too overbearin' about him. For he had boasted to me about him for years, and years, and a woman can't stand only jest about so much aggravatin' and treadin' on before she will turn like a worm. That is Bible about "The Worm," and must be believed. What used to mad me the worst wuz when he would git to comparin' Elnathan with one of 'em on my side who wuz shiftless. Good land ! 'Zekiel Smith hain't the only man on earth who is ornary and no account. Every pardner has 'em, more or less, on his side and on hern ; let not one pardner boast themselves over the other one ; both have their drawbacks. But Elnathan had done well; I admitted it only when I wuz too much put upon. He had gone fur West, got rich, invested hiscapital ...« less