pace off the size on't, though it wuz enormous, for the thought of what I
wuz carryin' bore me on almost regardless of my matchless surroundin's and
the twinges of rumatiz.

And anon I arrived at the White House, where my hopes and the hopes of
my sect and Serepta Pester wuz sot. I will pass over my efforts to git
into the Presence, merely sayin' that they were arjous and extreme, and I
wouldn't probably have got in at all had not the Presence appeared with a
hat on jest goin' out for a walk, and see me as I wuz strivin' with the
emissary for entrance. I spoze my noble mean, made more noble fur by the
magnitude of what I wuz carryin', impressed him, for suffice it to say
inside of five minutes the Presence wuz back in his augience room, and I
wuz layin' out them errents of Serepta's in front of him.

He wuz very hefty, a good-lookin' smilin' man, a politer demeanored
gentlemanly appearner man I don't want to see. But his linement which had
looked so pleasant and cheerful growed gloomy and deprested as I spread
them errents before him and sez in conclusion:

"Serepta Pester sent these errents to you, she wanted intemperance done
away with, the Whiskey Ring broke up and destroyed, she wanted you to
have nothin' stronger than root beer when you had company to dinner, she
offerin' to send you some burdock and dandeline roots and some emptins to
start it with, and she wanted her rights, and wanted 'em all by week after
next without fail."

He sithed hard, and I never see a linement fall furder than hisen fell,
and kep' a-fallin'. I pitied him, I see it wuz a hard stent for him to do
it in the time she had sot, and he so fleshy too. But knowin' how much
wuz at the stake, and how the fate of Serepta and wimmen wuz tremblin' in