Betsy Gaskins (Dimicrat), Wife of Jobe Gaskins (Republican): Or, Uncle Tom's Cabin Up to DateHood, W. I. (William I.)
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Betsy Gaskins (Dimicrat), Wife of Jobe Gaskins (Republican): Or, Uncle Tom's Cabin Up to Date
Hood, W. I. (William I.)
Gold; Interest; Money; Paper money -- United States; Populism
57. “Jobe he flew up” 119
58. “It wasent anything onusual for a county 120
officer to make all he could”
59. “‘Hadent we all ort to be satisfied so 121
long as bonds sell well?’”
60. “‘Times are never hard under a gold 122
basis,’ Jobe says”
61. “They whispered and snickered at my 125
straw hat and Jobe’s linen coat”
62. “He said the rich all belong to church” 126
63. Harvesting 129
64. “I was puttin salve on Jobe’s hands” 130
65. The hand that voted “the strait ticket” 131
66. “Some good men in case of labor trouble” 133
67. “Some of the little children are pretty” 136
68. “Jobe took what hay he could spare” 138
69. “They are kept so busy legislatin” 139
70. “A huntin them overhalls” 142
71. “I had sot down and went to churnin” 143
72. “The Dimicratic bloomers” 146
73. “‘Hello, mistur’” 147
74. “‘We ketch em a comin and we ketch em a 148
goin’”
75. “I seen him a comin up the lane” 151
76. “The fust time for nigh onto twenty 153
years”
77. “Billot jist laughed at him” 155
78. “Jobe he got mad and called Billot a 156
Populist”
79. Ornamental tailpiece—sunset 157
80. “Lawyers a talkin and a laffin” 159
81. “‘Mistur Moore, how long has it been 161
since you quit advocatin the use of
good, old-fashioned greenbacks?’”
82. “‘Lawyer—Dimicratic lawyer and 164
polertician’”
83. “He carried a banner” 167
84. “I got a straw and tickled his nose” 171
85. Ornamental tailpiece 179
86. “It was nearly mornin when I heerd the 181
patriotic sounds of the fish-horn”
87. “He looked kind a pale” 182
88. “‘Give us a tune, Jobe’” 183
89. “‘This is not accordin to contract’” 184
90. “We hitched in front of Urfer’s big dry 186
goods store”
91. “‘Ready’” 187
92. “‘I am a banker, sir, a banker‘” 190
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