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Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition

CHAPTER X
14/18

Pretty girls in their gay national costume accosted us from the verandas anon or oftener wantin' to sell sooveneers.
Josiah noticed the price they asked and hurried me onwards.

They wuz real pretty girls so I didn't mind so much goin' on (married wimmen will understand my feelin's.

We have to keep one eye out more or less).
There is a little chapel and below it cut from solid rock is a statute of Andreas Hofer, victorious soldier, lover of country, but like many another hero he had to suffer martyrdom for it.

But his grateful countrymen keeps his memory green.

I wuz glad to see it.
It wuz a pretty place: the lofty mountain side with cow bells tinkling along the winding roads, the cool pretty villages below, chimes sounding from high towers, the peasants singing their national songs, the bands ringing out their stirring melodies.


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