Samantha at the World's Fair

th his railroad business, and by the time the re

circumstances, for Ury and Philury wuz goin' to move right into o

ne off on, and never had we found our confidence misp

kin' for us by the week or on shares, and they have

o when we did, but they wuz a-comin' later, when Tirzah Ann had got all her preperations m

help seein' that she duz lots o

sses made a purpose to go to the World's Fair, and thre

suits of under-clothes made, all trimmed off elaborate with tattin' and home-made edgin' before she

can git good ones for twenty cents. And," sez I, "these will take

d such nice ones to the store-

"I shall go wit

l to the foot, specially to the instep, a

your instep? You hain't a-goin' round

t she should feel better to know that she had on

nciples than the consciousness of shell-work stockin's. But I di

a fearful amount of time, she had got to embroider th

roidered, and shell-work stockin's knit, we might have not been discovered to this day. But," sez I, "good, sensible creeter, he knew better than to do it when he had ever

e late, prepared, than to go earl

rts and Lyle-thread stockin's hain't loose-t

n't break it up, so I

after me more in a good many things than Tirzah Ann d

I felt jest a

providin' we wuz clean and hull, and respectable-lookin', who wuz a-goi

nd curiosities from every land under the sun-wonders of the earth and wonders of the sea, marvels of genius and invention, and marvels of grandeur and glory, of Art and Nature, and the hull

id

old wrapper to put on mornin's. She took a good plain black silk dress, with two waists to it-a thick one for cool days and a thin

ed! She felt jest as I did. What would the Christopher Columbus World's Fair care for the particular make of Thomas J's night-shirts? That

er over at that late day, even if I had time to tackle t

had had his head would have outdone Tirzah Ann

if he had been left alone would have been a shame and a d

sacrifices laid on the altar of corns an

oe-screws," sez I, "when you have got to be on foot from mornin' till night, day after d

of Tirzah Ann), "He wuz a

ises and t

shoes or went barefoot! But if you are afraid of talk," sez I, "I guess that it would make full as much talk to

and if you have got to have a new pair, git some that will be more becomin' to

a pair that wuzn't more'n one size too small for him, and I presumed to think they would stretch some. And, anyway, I

d been my faithful companions for over two

n a shoe-string. And the only new thing that I bought,

he bottom of it. I feel my own shortcomin's, I feel

rnin' itself up-I thought in case of fire in the night I wouldn't want to be ketched with a plain sh

newspapers as a-bein' rescued, I did feel a little pride in havin' a

g on the cold chills onto anybody, even if took bareheaded, an

ut, anyway, it only cost thirty-five cents, and there wuzn't nothin' painfu

left in the very best of sperits and on the ten o'clock train,

black velvet turban, and she had pinned a bunch of fresh rosies to her waist, and the rosies wuzn't any pinker than her pret

her husband, for my boy, Thomas Jefferson, is a young man of a thousand, and it is

s off, and she said that she should come on jest

her knittin' work (we had to wait quite a good while for the car

proud sperited to have 'em plain clam-shell pattern, which are bigg

ubersome, but I spoke up

's done, Tirzah Ann, you

said s

, two, three, four, yes, moth

e of 'em, which made it hard and wearin' bo

l stockin's that he won't look at a oyster sence-he used to be devoted to 'em, raw or cooked; but t

has had enough oys

them actions of hern is; hain't I suf

oom, and c

to see me off, and so did Miss

e said "she wouldn't go off and leave her work ondone, and she hadn't got more'n half of the rags cut, and

reprovin' at me, for she kn

ut and copperas; but the World's Fair comes but once in a lifetime, and I believe in e

ent," and she looked clost at me as she said it. "Some folks could go off on towers and be happy with the thought of rags oncut and warp

on 'em, I guess that there wouldn't be much comfort took, for, do the best we c

, never should, go off on tow

e, and if folks waited for them circumstances, I

hing; it wuz the oppurtunity of a lifetime for education and pleasure; but she wuz a-goin' to finish that borrow-and-lend bedquilt of hern before she sta

you let those things

ld be all beat out, and wouldn't feel like it when she

resh and strong, and ready to learn and enjoy, even if I let my borrow-and-lend bedquilt go till another year. For," sez I,

ad been a-layin' round for several years, and she felt that s

do any good to argy with

uldn't miss it for anything in the livin' world. But she had got to make a visit all round t

l a visit, on both of your sides, before you went," sez she. "They would have

y side and on hisen, but I never expected to see another Christopher Columbus World's Fair, and I h

he relations on both sides, and make 'em happy. And she felt that, in case of anything happ

the World's Fair at all, for they are numerous on both sides, and widespread

ined to have her way, and I d

n' a last visit previous to her departure, she wuz took down bed-sick for three weeks. And the Fair bein' at that time

to her that they had to watch her for some time, she wuz that melancholy about

-watchin' her for months afterwards, she got 'em mad at her on both sides. Seven diffe

talked hard of suin' her for damage. For they wuz real smart folks, and had been makin' their calculations for over three years

to r

oler, I see Miss Solomon Stebbins a

ye, and Miss Stebbins wuz wit

z spared." She said, "That she wouldn't miss bein' in the place where wimmen wuz

e feet tall; she said it would do her soul good to see men look up to her, and they have got to look up to her if th

of it, and to the top too. Why," sez Arville, "I wouldn't miss the chance of seein' wimmen swing right out, and act as if their souls wuz their own, not for the mines of Gol

"you hain't a-goin' to

Arvi

a-walkin' afoot, and I am goin

stn't do it; you must le

e Deeds of Man.' I calculate to make money enough to get me there and ride some of the way, and take care of me while I am there

ch obliged j

d calculated to, but she wanted to finish

a-goin' to fall very soon

she mistrusted that she should feel kind o' mauger and wore out. And then," she said, "she had got to make a dozen fi

ng do you lay

o weeks,"

seem as if he would need so ma

ould feel more reliev

it up. For it is fur from me to w

so I didn't have no more time t