[Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley]@TWC D-Link bookSamantha at the St. Louis Exposition CHAPTER VI 9/19
And all sorts of mineral waters, queer things they be flowin' side by side out of the same ground as different as water and wine.
And there wuz a foundry and mint for makin' money. Imagine a buildin' coverin' nine acres full of such interestin' sights, and thirteen acres out-doors.
For you must remember that it wuz not only the riches of America's Under World, but the wealth of England, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Japan and in fact every foreign nation.
Josiah reveled in it, and so did Blandina vicariously.
And I enjoyed it too, for I always wuz wonderin' what wuz goin' on under my feet, and now I had a glimpse on't. Well, we stayed there a long time and went from there into Manufactures Buildin', when who should we meet but Uncle Giles Petigrew, a M.E. deacon who used to live in Zoar but who had moved to St.Louis some years before.
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