josh was a kind of gineral teamster, an had a two-hoss wagon with which he did chores for everybody round the village.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith
He stopped his hosses, however, an got out, an a hull lot of fellers, who knew the ability of old josh in the swearin line, gathered around expecting to here the tallest kind of strong words.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith
The Kernel here spoke an sed that his Cabbynet was a good deal like old josh Pendleton's boys out in lower Illinoy.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith