PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
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By “Josiah Allen's Wife”: Marietta Holley
ARE LOOKING ACROSS THE CRADLE OF THEIR
Josiah and me got to talkin' it over. He said it wuzn't right to think more of one child than you did of another.
And he says, “Then, why did you say yesterday, that you loved sweet Cicely better than any of the rest of your thought-children? You said you loved 'em all, and was kinder sorry for the hull on 'em, but you loved her the best: what made you say it?”
Says I, “I said it, to tell the truth.”
“Wall, what did you do it _for_?” he kep' on, determined to get a reason.
“I did it,” says I, a comin' out still plainer,--“I did it to keep from lyin'.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
