[Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley]@TWC D-Link bookSamantha at the St. Louis Exposition CHAPTER X 13/18
But this bein' the first one we come to we thought we would enter and we found it wuz a highly interestin' spectacle. There wuz lofty snow-crowned mountains, some on 'em that seemed fur away, and some nigher by, a lake lyin' smooth and placid at their feet. Its shore wuz dotted with trees, and little picturesque cottages nestled on its banks. Anon a large fair city spread out at the foot of the serene mountains. Then you would come to an immense castle, so nigh the mountain that it seemed to grow out of it with its ivied walls and lofty towers pierced with quaintly paned windows.
Crowds of sightseers passin' in and out its lofty arched entrance and walking through the grounds outside. Another castle, handsomer yet, wuz the castle of Linderhof, which stands in stately magnificence at the foot of the mountain, but furder away from it.
Rows of clipped evergreens stand along its white terraces and masses of foliage on each side.
A white monument towered up to the sky in the centre of its beautiful lawn in front, and nigher by there wuz a big leapin' fountain guarded on each side by statutes of female wimmen reclining at ease but seemin' to have their eye on the hull beautiful seen and tendin' to things, as wimmen have to. Then anon you would come to a little village with pretty houses, mostly gables.
There wuz a mountain torrent with several bridges over it that foamed and dashed along through the quaint little place.
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