[Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley]@TWC D-Link book
Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition

CHAPTER XI
10/20

But spoze the trustees will have to head him off.
Josiah wanted to go and see the Fire Fighters, he said he thought he could git some idees to tell the brethren that wuz in the fire company, and Blandina and I wanted to see the Esquimeaux Village.

We went on, Josiah promisin' to meet us there.

And as we went I said: "I've sung for years about Greenland's icy mountains, but never spozed I should set my eyes on 'em." For there towerin' up to the skies wuz immense ice mountains peaked and desolate lookin', and inside it looked worse yet.

A bare snowy place broken by cold lookin' water dotted with ice islands and surrounded by tall ice peaks.

I don't spoze it wuz real ice and snow, but looked like it.
And there wuz reindeers hitched to sleds, and the low round huts of the natives lookin' jest like the pictures in our old Gography.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books