The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-03-27
FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS.
a BOYS COMPOSITION ON SAMSON.
''The wonderfuIiist Man You Ever seed'i
His .'Courtin" and Other Expert
ences-Didn't Mind "BeIn Killed"
Other Stories-Problems.

A London schoolmaster has been pub
fishing specimens of compositions by his
pupils. The following was written by
CHEEKY little fellow, who came from a very
poor home and naturally had original
ideas about spelling. His essay on Sam
son is as follows, word for word, and it
will be found a good exercise for little
readers to find how and where he makes
a mistake.
THE life OF Samson which / has to give
Samson was the wonderfullist man YOU
ever seed. He was so mighty strong hat he
thought no more of lions and bears than
boys do OF cats and things. If you think
he was a giant, that's just where yer
wrong. coz he wasn't a bit bigger than
your father is. But mind yer. he had
very long hair, and that's Just where it
was. II went right down his neck and
under his coat, and then all the way down.
That's how 1t was.
Samson became very sinful, for he got
a-courtin' a young woman who was a re-
lation of the wickerd Phillistins. Men
should never court young women from
uther countries, except they are good.
Never mind abart them being incest look
ing, if they are not good. Why this
young woman actshually wurshipped
them ugly little hinges wot yev seen mis-
shenaries bring in bags and put in a row
on the table. As Samson was goin' a
courtin' one dark night a lion sprung at
him from over a garding. And see yer,
Samson Just cote il by the chin, and gev
it SIGH a crack 'twixt its eyes that it
dropped down dead, like as yev seed COWS
behint butchers shops. You'll never
know how strong he was.
'When they got marrid behold Samson
arskt a riddle while the Phillistins was all
eating their dinners round him. He told
told them that if they could guess it, he
would give them, without joking, thirty
new suits of close apiece. Didn't they try
after that; COZ they knowd that if they
found it out they'd never have to buy no
more new close. But they couldn't riddle
it with all their thinkin. Then that nasty
imige woman went and told them wot it
was. So Samson had TO give all of them
thirty new suits. How they would larf
while they was carrying them home,
speshully when they was trying them on.
But Samson never torgived the imige
woman, and he wouldn't be marrid to her
no longer.
''You woodn't think this strong man
wood have gone and got marrid agen to
another imige woman Behold he did,
and the next one was worser than the first.
A recall badun this one was. Her name it
was Deliler. Never mind her luther name,
coz people never used to have two in those
days; that's how it was. Deliler only per-
tended TO love mighty Samson. But she
ho4a a. krf+ -
tying them 500 foxes tails together with
straw, lightin' them all up. and chivying
them ever so among the corn. Samson
hadn't been marrid long before he began
OF them agen. He happened to pick up
in the street an old iobOne of an ass, and
he went right at a whole army of them
with it. and killed abart a thousand of
them just as if they was flies. That's
how it was.
"Deliler was allus n worrying Samson
TO tell her wOt made him so mighty strong.
Hetold her all sorts ofthings abart switches
and ropes, but when she'd tied him with
them. and cried Here they are a COMM,
Samson just sprung up, and killed them
right oil as usuerl like flies At last mighty
Samson told her abart his long hairs
Then this bad imige woman got Samson
nicely of to sleep, and clipped all his hair
oil as short as yours, with a
big pair of sizzers she'd got lent her.
And then the nasty woman nudged him,
and cried out Cycling Here they are a
COMM But poor Samson couldn't do
nothin' this time; and when they bussled
him away to a big dark prison with his
hands tied behint him, he said it served
him right for tellin' wot he knowd. Poor
Samson nearly cried. Then they put out
both his eyes, and forced him to turn a
big stone weel all day long. o that bad
imige woman; that secund one, that was
her.
But I'll tell yer, them old Phillistins
was punished at last, just when they
thought as they was safe. Samson's hair
began to grow agen down his back; and,
as it got longer, he felt hisself getting
mighty strong. One afternoon about 5000
of them was eatin all sorts of meet vittles
and gettin drunk in a big round room, and
they kept taking turns at wurshipping
hinges. Then they sent for poor blind
Samson to come to them and dance
and do strong things. When Samson
got in he arskt the little boy wot held
him, to lead him to where the two biggest
pillars was. And the little BOY did so
without thinking nothing at all abart it.
Then Samson bowed his head down and
prayed to God just for mint or two, and
then he snatched farsi hold OF the pliers.
and tugged away like mad. And see yer,
afore anybody could stop him, he tugged
them two big pliers right down, and the
top OF the place came smashin' in. Sicha
smash it was and it killed them all theer
as easy as flies Samson was killed, too,
but he didn't mind that"