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You did! I didn't. You did. I never said nothing of the kind. Well, what did you say, then? Said he come to take the sea baths that's what I said. Well, then, how's he going to take the sea baths if it ain't on the sea? Looky here, I says; did you ever see any Congress-water? Yes. Well, did you have to go to Congress to get it? Why, no. Well, neither does William Fourth have to go to the sea to get a sea bath. How does he get it, then? Gets it the way people down here gets Congress-water in barrels. There in the palace at Sheffield they've got furnaces, and he wants his water hot. They can't bile that amount of water away off there at the sea. They haven't got no conveniences for it. Oh, I see, now. You might a said that in the first place and saved time. When she said that I see I was out of the woods again, and so I was comfortable and glad. Next, she says: Do you go to church, too? Yes regular. Where do you set? Why, in our pew. Whose pew? Why, ourn your Uncle Harvey's. His'n? What does he want with a pew? Wants it to set in. What did you reckon he wanted with it? Why, I thought he'd be in the pulpit. Rot him, I forgot he was a preacher. I see I was up a stump again, so I played another chicken bone and got another think. Then I says: Blame it, do you suppose there ain't but one preacher to a church? |
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