But at that minute the storm calms down and Josiah replaces his knife jest as we enter New York harbor.

A flight over sea and land, forest and city, and we land agin at the Exposition.
As we disembarked Josiah grasped holt of my hand ostensibly to help me but really in tender greeting, and sez in fervid axents, "I wouldn't have you take that trip alone, Samantha, without me with you to protect you, not for worlds." "No," sez Blandina, "what would we have done without dear Uncle Josiah by our side ?" I didn't argy but felt that he wouldn't with his size and weight made much headway agin them whales and water monsters to say nothin' of danger by drowndin' and fallin' from the sky.

But he felt neat and we wended our way on.
Josiah said he didn't care about goin' to Asia, and I said it wuz a pity not to when we wuz so nigh, but he kinder hurried me on.
I told him that the Streets of Seville interested me, for it wuz planned by a woman, the only woman who ever received a concession in a amusement street of a Exposition.
And Josiah sez, "I shall spend my money on sunthin' of more importance; it probable all runs to crazy quilts and tattin." But it wuz no such thing, it wuz perfectly beautiful, as I've hearn folks say that have been there.

But I see he wuz beginnin' to look kinder mauger, and as first chaperone I sez anxiously, "Where do you want to go, dear Josiah?
Do you want to go to Hagenbecks Animal Show ?" "No, I don't; I shall see animals enough when I git home in my own barnyard." "Well, do you want to go to the Hereafter, Josiah ?" "No, we shall git there all right if we keep on without my payin' out money.

I told you I wuzn't goin' to pay to go in to all these places." "Well, do you want to go to France or Ceylon or Persia?
Or Cairo?
Or where do you want to go ?" Sez he, cross as a bear, "I want to go where I can git sunthin' to eat." And I sez, "Dear Josiah, I've been so took up I forgot your appetite; we will go to once." And havin' heard that good food could be got in Japan we hastened thither..