sick seemin'ly, but fagged out. She was a delicate littl

allied out alone: her name bein' Sally, too

idn't want to go to

osiah had charged me expresly to go there, and get him a patent pail. He n

ights and sights of things there wus to be seen there; and I found out when

traction and happiness, the sights are so nume

hair-pins and pianos and thimbles, and the acres and acres of glass cases containing every thing that wus ever heard of, and every thing that never wus heard of by anybody

the copyright. I told Sally plain "that I wanted to see the place where t

"Why? What made

uriousest place, and he would be the curiousest lookin' creeter, that wuz

s one of the clerks," but I don't believe a word of it. I believe it was the man himself, who made the la

d as promised

ir, and he expected to own it till he or the mair died. He didn't expect to

"Who Josiah was?

sheep got over on the other side, it was sheep jest the same, and it was hisen je

egarding copyright, if it wuzn't for s

reable and entertainin', he would change the law quicker, I made a effort, and related a little inter

the usual number of feet; but he was so close a calculator, that he thought it would be money in his pocket to marry this one, for he wouldn't have to buy but one shoe and stockin'. But

and he jest about the same as pr

so strange every time I think o

ookin' human, and jest like anybody else;" and she said "it was a

w anybody in human shape can make

e so sort o' light-headed and vacant if I went to explain it to her, that I never said a word, and fell in at once with her

ts of money they are makin' there, and a countin'. Why, I s'pose the

nd more of it, on account of my bein' there. But they

ded kind,-I asked her, "If she s'posed they'd let us take hold and make a li

private citizens

, "Who

way, sunthin' about "speculators and

oud,-I hain't one to go wh

is own accord for me to get sunthin' to remember him by. Howsumever, I don't need nor want any of his money. I

ht to behold, to

sed through my mind; and then the Corcoran Art Gallery passed through it, and

makes the public schools." Says I, "Ther

she didn't kn

akin', that drew her back towards home. She own

seemed

says, "I shall see tha

him easy enough. She knew all the ti

see my talk to that man. I s'pose, if it had been prin

ross before I got half through, I tal

public,-the grog-shops, and other licensed places of ruin. I told him how pretty it looked to me to see Civilization a marchin' along from the Atla

ighly I approved of

tle ones, a sinkin' down in the deep waters of ignorance and brutality, why, jest let Uncle Sam reach right down, and draw 'em out." Says I, "I'll bet that is why

, the water is so deep round 'em. But he'll reach 'em, Uncle Sam will. He'll lift 'em right up in his lon

is, and what it will do. Why," says I, "in that very law Christianity has took a longer strid

perfectly beautiful t

e his engagement wus a wearin' on him. His eyes looked fairly wild. I only give a bald id

age and brutal trait of theirn." Says I firmly, "I must, before I go back to Jonesville, tend to it." Says I, "I didn't come here for fashion, or dry-goods; though I s'pose lots of both of 'em are to be got here." Says I, "I may tend to one or two fashionable parties, or levys as I s'pose

people to their parties here, as you can se

alth and display, natural courtesy and refinement, walkin' side by side with pretentius vulgarity, and mebby poverty bringin' up the rear. Genius and folly, honesty and affectation, gentlene

has come right straight to me by them that know-that the ladies wear what they call full dress; an

n't s'pose you will take my word for it, and

s completely full. I fairly pity 'em-the hull 10 of 'em. They wan

get me a new calico dress,-London brown with a set flower on it. But I can do without tha

immejiately and to once. But I knew right was right, and I felt that Sa

d tended to it well.