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Margaret Prescott Montague
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“Well, dog my cats! Er course that’s it! Why—course—course I knowed that was what I was doing all the time! Aw, Haw! Haw! Haw! Traveled from Somewheres to Nowheres, and now yer at it! Well that is comical sure! Traveled—Somewheres—Nowheres—an’ now yer at it! Aw my jaws! My jaws!” I hollers out.
Well, sirs! That thing come nigh killing me, for I reckon I don’t have to tell none of you-all that’s reading this tale, that to travel from Somewheres to Nowheres is jest about the beatenest thing a person kin do. And if you don’t b’lieve me, you jest travel that way onced yerself, and see if it don’t come nigh putting your funny bone outer place. There’s jest one thing funnier than traveling from Somewheres to Nowheres, and that’s to git there—and now I’d done both, and the joke of it come nigh ruining my jaws. It’s the truth they had a kind of a crick in ’em till a right smart time afterwards when we-all up Eel River hit the world’s funny bone, and the big laf that time kinder put ’em back into place ergin—but I don’t aim to tell you-all about that now.
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