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Title: My opinions and Betsy Bobbet's. Designed as a beacon light, to guide women to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may be read by members of the sterner sect, without injury to themselves or the book
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Holley, Marietta, 1836-1926
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Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : American Pub. Co., Toledo, O., W. E. Bliss
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ra! Josiali Allen what good has it doneto old Mr. Layfayette to have my new earthern pieplates smashed to bits, and a couple of tines broke offof one of my best forks ? What good has it done toold Thomas Jefferson, to have my lawn dress tore of!of me by Betsey Bobbet ? what benefit has it been toJohn Adams, or Isaac Putnam to have old Peedick stepthrough it ? what honor has it been to George Wash-ington to have my straw bonnet flatted down tight tomy head ? I am sick of this talk about honorin, andliberty and duty, I am sick of it, says I folks willmake a pack horse of duty, and ride it to circuses.and bull fights, if we had em. You may talk abouthonorin the old heroes and goin through all these performances to please em. But if they are in Heaventhey can get along without heerin the Jonesville brassband, and if they haint, they are probably where fire-works haint much of a rarity to em. Josiah quailed before my lofty tone and I relapsedinto a weary and delapidated silence. N < fci
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SIMON SLIMPSEY AND HIS MOURNFUL FOREBODINS. TWO or three weeks after this, Thomas Jeffersonwent to the school house to nieetin one Sundayni-ht, and he broke out to the breakfast table the next O mornin- Mother, I am sick of the Jews, says he, I shouldtliink tlie Jews had a hard enough time a wanderinfor 40 years, it seems to me if I was in ministersplaces T would let em rest a little while now, and goto preachin to livin sinners, when the world is fullof Yin. There was two or three drunkards there lastnight, a thief, four hypocrites, and- One little conceited (Teeter that thinks he knowsmore than his old minister, says I in a relink in* tone. Yes, I noticed Shakespeare )>bbrt was there,says he calmly. But wouldnt it have been better,mother, to have preached to these livin1 sinners thatare goin to destruction round him, and that ought to bo chased up, and punched in the side with the Gos- 177 ITS BETSEY TALKED IN MEET1N. pel, than to chase round them old Jews for an hourand

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