agin?." Sez I, "promise me, boys, not to hurt Sarah."

I don't know what the effect of my words would have been, but a
man came up just then and explained to me, that Aunt Sally wuz a
image that they throwed at for one cent apiece to see if they
could break her pipe.

I see how it wuz, and cooled right down, and so did Josiah. And
he gin the boys five cents apiece, and quiet rained down on the
Encampment.

But I sez to the man, "I don't like the idee of havin' my sect
throwed at from day to day, and week to week." Sez I, "Why didn't
you have a man fixed up to throw at, why didn't you have a Uncle
Sam?" Sez I, "I don't over and above like it; it seems to be a
sort of a slight onto my sect."

Sez the man winkin' kind a sly at Josiah, "It won't do to make
fun of men, men have the power in their hands and would resent it
mebby. Uncle Sam can't be used jest like Aunt Sally."

Sez I, "That haint the right spirit. There haint nothin' over
and above noble in that, and manly."

I wuz kinder rousted up about it, and so wuz Josiah. And that is
I s'pose the reasun of his bein' so voyalent, at the next place
of recreation we halted at Josiah see the picture of the mermaid;
that beautiful female, a, settin' on the rock and combin' her
long golden hair. And he proposed that we should go in and see
it.