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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife, by Marietta Holley This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife Author: Marietta Holley Illustrator: H. M. Pettit Release Date: October 6, 2009 [EBook #30190] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AROUND THE WORLD *** Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: Archaic and variable spelling, as well as inconsistency in hyphenation, has been preserved as printed in the original book. [Illustration: "Oh, Josiah," sez I, "what a sight!"--_Frontispiece_. Page 125.] AROUND THE WORLD WITH JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE BY MARIETTA HOLLEY Author of "Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition," "My Opinion and Betsey Bobbets'," "Samantha at Saratoga," "Samantha at the World's Fair," Etc. ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. M. PETTIT G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK Copyright, 1899, 1900 and 1905, by Marietta Holley. Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England. (Issued September, 1905.) Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife. J. J. Little & Ives Co. New York AROUND THE WORLD WITH JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE CHAPTER I Our son, Thomas Jefferson, and his wife, Maggie, have been wadin' through a sea of trouble. He down with inflamatory rumatiz so a move or jar of any kind, a fly walkin' over the bedclothes, would most drive him crazy; and she with nervious prostration, brought on I spoze by nussin' her pardner and her youngest boy, Thomas Josiah (called Tommy), through the measles, that had left him that spindlin' and weak-lunged that the doctor said the only thing that could tone up his system and heal his lungs and save his life would be a long sea voyage. He had got to be got away from the cold fall blasts of Jonesville to once. Oh! how I felt when I heard that ultimatum and realized his danger, for Tommy wuz one of my favorites. Grandparents ort not to have favorites, but I spoze they will as long as the world turns on its old axletrys. He looks as Thomas J. did when he wuz his age and I marri
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