"creek don't rise"
Stephen Goranson
goranson at DUKE.EDU
Wed Feb 21 13:00:45 UTC 2007
"'Feller-citizens--I'm not 'customed to public speakin' before such
highfalutin'
audiences....Yet here I stand before you a speckled hermit, wrapt in the
risen-sun counterpane of my popilarity, an' intendin', Providence permittin',
and the creek do n't rise, to 'go it blind!'...."
[read do n't or don't, not clear]
p. 447 (?) The Doolittle Delegation, to a "Woman's Rights Convention." by Miss
L. Virginia Smith, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and
Fashion v. 38 June 1851
Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson
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