The Pioneers; Or, the Sources of the Susquehanna : a Descriptive Tale
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She's no mis- tress of mine, and never will be. And as to speech, I hold myself as second to nobody out of New England. I was bom and raised in Essex county; and I've always heer'n say, that the Bay State was provarbal for pronounsation !" " I've often heard of that Bay of State," said Benjamin, " but can't say that I've ever been in it, nor do I know exactly where away it is that it lays ; but I suppose that there is good anchorage in it, and that it's no bad place for the taking of ling ; but... for size, it can't be so much as a yawl to a sloop of war, compared with the Bay of Biscay, or, may- hap. Tor-bay. And as for language, if you want to hear the dictionary overhauled, like a long-line in a blow, you must go to Wapping, and listen to the Lon'oners, as they deal out their lingo. How- somever, I see no such mighty matter that Misa Lizzy has been doing to you, good woman, so take another drop of j'our brew, and forgive and fuiget, like an honest soul." " No, indeed ! and I shan't do sitch a thing, Benjamin.
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