The Contrast by Royall Tyler
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page 84 of 161 (52%)
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Well-- JONATHAN So I went right in, and they shewed me away, clean up to the garret, just like meeting-house gallery. And so I saw a bower of topping folks, all sitting round in little cabbins, "just like father's corn-cribs"; and then there was such a squeaking with the fiddles, and such a tarnal blaze with the lights, my head was near turned. At last the people that sat near me set up such a hissing--hiss--like so many mad cats; and then they went thump, thump, thump, just like our Peleg threshing wheat, and stampt away, just like the nation; and called out for one Mr. Langolee,--I suppose he helps act the tricks. JENNY Well, and what did you do all this time? JONATHAN Gor, I--I liked the fun, and so I thumpt away, and hiss'd as lustily as the best of 'em. One sailor- looking man that sat by me, seeing me stamp, and |
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