[Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley]@TWC D-Link bookSamantha at the St. Louis Exposition CHAPTER IX 16/21
Mountain and valley, hill and dale, ocean and rivulet.
Every phase of human joy and sorrow wuz depictered there, and every phase of peaceful and warlike life.
It wuz a sight.
If I could stayed there a year right in them walls I might have got round mebby and seen what I wanted to and as long as I wanted to. But of course this wuzn't to be, for one thing the Fair would be closed before and then Josiah wouldn't gin his consent anyway.
He got kinder worrisome as it wuz and didn't want to stay so long as we did, and after a hour or so I compromised with him, gin him nut cakes occasionally and anon when we would enter a new gallery he would set down by the door till I had got through lookin'. As I said some of the pictures and statutes clung to my memory as if they'd been throwed at my mind so powerful that they jest stuck there and couldn't be dislodged even by all the later multitude of sights throwed over 'em. There wuz one by Whistler full of the subtle mystery that he wrops round his figgers.
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