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| “And then he would call in Uncle Nate Peedick and they would bend their two gray bald heads and talk about specifications and elevations till my brain seemed most as soft as theirn.” |
196 |
| “‘Serenus and Josiah are havin’ a gay time at Coney Island. I’ve jest had a card from Serenus,’ sez Miss Gowdey. You could have knocked me down with a pin feather.” |
215 |
| “I stood before what seemed to be a great city. Endless white towers riz up as if callin’ attention to ’em.” |
227 |
| “On we went under the waterfall, up, up, down, down, and finally shot out jest where we got in.” |
231 |
| The Witching Waves “Folks get into little automobiles and steer ’em themselves.” |
236 |
| “A boat full of men and women set out from the highest peak, shot down the declivity like lightnin’ and dashed ’way out on the other side of the bridge.” |
239 |
| “Rows of high-headed mettlesome hosses.” |
247 |
| “I’m tellin’ the livin’ truth, as she towered up in front on me, her breast opened and a man’s face looked out on me.” |
254 |
| “As I went down with lightnin’ speed I had’nt time to think much.” |
259 |
| “Pretty soon it begun to move and one by one they wuz throwed off and went down I know not where.” |
261 |
| “As I went into Dreamland it seemed as if all the folks in the city was there.” |
267 |
| “We got in a small boat and wuz carried round and round till we dived into a dark tunnel.” |
277 |
| “I went forward to see the Head Hunters. I sez to ’em ‘I’ve hearn of your doin’s and I want to advise you for your good.’” |
282 |
| “It wuz a sight to see, acres and acres of sand dotted with men, wimmen, and children.” |
287 |
| “I rushed forwards and cried to the lordly beast above, jest ready to spring: ‘Don’t harm Josiah! Devour me instead.’” |
304 |
| “I myself never sot foot on the Bowery; I wuzn’t goin’ to nasty up my mind with it, though I hearn there wuz some good things to be seen there.” |
314 |
| “‘The suller!’ He stood agast, perfectly dumb-foundered but wuzn’t goin’ to give in he had made a mistake. It wuz too mortifying to his pride.” |
319 |
| “I don’t know how long they stood there, his eyes searchin’ the dear face and findin’ a sacred meanin’ in it.” |
348 |
CHAPTER ONE
IN WHICH THE CONEY ISLAND MICROBE ENTERS OUR QUIET HOME
Samantha at Coney Island and
a Thousand Other Islands
CHAPTER ONE
IN WHICH THE CONEY ISLAND MICROBE
ENTERS OUR QUIET HOME
When Serenus Gowdey got back last fall from Brooklyn, where his twin brother, Sylvester, lives, he couldn’t talk about anything but Coney Island. He slighted religion, stopped runnin’ down relations, politics wuz left in the lurch, and cows, hens, and crops, wuz to him as if they wuzn’t. He acted crazy as a loon about that Island.
Why, Sylvester’ses wife told Miss Dagget and she told the Editor of the Augur’s wife, and she told Ben Lowry’s widder, and she told the Editor of the Gimlet’s mother-in-law, and she told me. It come straight, that Serenus only stayed there nights and to a early breakfast, but spent his hull durin’ time to Coney Island, and he a twin too. She said Sylvester felt so 4 hurt she wuz afraid it would make a lastin’ hardness. And it
