human
Oh why didn't I do thus and so? And now it is too late to wait on 'em, and pay attention to 'em? But I'm leadin' a melancholy horse up to a mournin' wagon, before the thills are on, so I'll stop eppisodin' and resoom forwards. Jest outside the gate of Dreamland I met Bildad, and he sez,
gpt
Have you found Josiah yet?
human
No, I sez in despairin' axents,
gpt
I hain't seen hide nor hair on him.
human
Mebby he's gone in bathin'.
gpt
No, I sez,
human
He took a bath in the wash-tub the night before he come here, and he hain't a man that will wash oftener than he has to.
gpt
Hundreds of folks take sand baths, lay in the sand and throw it at each other, cover themselves up in it.
human
What for?
gpt
Oh, jest for fun. They'll go into the water mebby, and then come ashore and roll and tumble in the sand, men, wimmen, and children, mostly foreigners,
human
It don't seem as if Josiah would go into that bizness; he always despised sand.
gpt
Well, sez he,
human
Where is that beach? And where is that sand?