Deacon Skidmore's Letters; Written for the Columns of the Truth Seeker (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...ov the littel thing as Steven duz. Yu kan see it in evry word and akshun, and with evry look ov her eyes; but she iz so kwiet and speeks so lo that the kontrast between her and Steven iz vary grate. J tell yu we had a reel good vizit with our dawter and son-in-law. We stayd a week, and the time passd off very plezantly. We made the time a day or two longer than we intended, and when I got home I thawt it waz too late to rite yu my kustom-ary weekly letter for The Truth Seekeh, but I new wel enuf that yure reeders wood exkuze it and perhaps be glad ov the chanse. Wun da the 2 Sallys and myself--mother and dawter--rode out to se the kuntry round about Hard Skrabel, and I found I didn't like Monmouth as wel as old Huntingdon, and I feel satisfied to remain whare we are. I probably shal not emigrate to any other part ov the kuntry, but lay my bones awa in the church yard at Zion Hil. I hav got so wonted to theze hils and holers that I don't want to leev them for meny daze at a time until I leev them for good and all, and go to okkupy the manshun which I hope iz prepard for me in the New Jerusalem abov the klouds. I truly hope that after all my efforts to leed a good life and do my duty so far az I no it, that it wil not be my fate to hav to take the uther rode to the rejuns ov darkness and terror. I don't like to think abowt that dark rode, and wish with all my hart that it had never been devized. I hav more than wunse thawt if I had been God Almighty I wood not hav had eny devil or euy hel to trubel myself or eny of my kreetyures. It haz alwaze seemd to me that that part ov kreashun waz redundant and had far better ben omitted. Sumtimes I hav thawt it hard to beleev, but the preechers and the good book say it iz so, and all we hav to do iz to beleev...