I'm a mighty sight
like that old longhorn who allows he's allers noticed if he lives
through the month of March he lives through the rest of the year; so
I figgers I'll hold together that a-way ontil shorely March comin'.
Anyhow I regards it as an even break I does.
"Thar's one thing about fall an' winter which removes the dreariness
some. I alloods to them festivals sech as Thanksgivin' an' Christmas
an' New Year. Do we-alls cel'brate these yere events in Wolfville?
Which we shorely does. Take Christmas: You-all couldn't find a sober
gent in Wolfville on that holy occasion with a search-warrant; the
feelin' to cel'brate is that wide-spread an' fervid.
"Thanksgivin' ain't so much lotted on; which for one thing we
frequent forgets it arrives that a-way. Thar's once, though, when we
takes note of its approach, an' nacherally, bein' organized, we
ketches it squar' in the door. Them Thanksgivin' doin's is shorely
great festivities that time. It's certainly a whirl.
"Old Man Enright makes the first break; he sorter arranges the game.
But before all is over, the food we eats, the whiskey we drinks, an'
the lies we tells an' listens to, is a shock an' a shame to Arizona.
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