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"Yes," sez Josiah, "I hain't heard anything more edifyin' since I jined the meetin' house."
Josiah Allen is very sound, and what I admire in that man, what makes him so different from most grandparents, is that he hain't blinded at all by his love for Delight; he sees clear just how fur above other children she is, and deep, and I am jest so.
