Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition

t. Louis Exposition, and give it in proper doses to the beloved patient? I knowed the size of th

hout crumplin' and crumblin' right down? Dast I venter? And then agin dast I disobey the

uz in, for if he should lose his mind in that immense place how could I find it with

hare my responsibility, so if he did lose his mind and couldn't find it agin, they couldn't find fault with me and say I ha

ustr

e wanted a sky blue neck-tie. That wuz the first sign of interest he had took in

her head, and a tall peaked forehead with light hair combed down smooth on both sides with scalops made in it by hand. She is good natered

her for some years and had kinder forgot how soft and squshy she wuz in her nater, and I declare for't when I got her and Josiah both together, had marshaled my forces, as you may say before my mind's revi

ailable in the position of second chape

she kep' up her perennial love and passionate adoration of man. And thinkses I it will work well anyway with her Uncle Josiah, fo

recious creeters that too much care could not be took of 'em, and that it would give her the greatest

nater that she lacks. But there is sunthin'

dignity and a gray braize delaine dress and a bunnet of the same color, I also wore my costly cameo pin fas

he did, and a hat that kinder drooped 'round her face trimmed with crushed strawberry r

, so sad, so deprested. Would the gloom ever be lifted from his beloved liniment? So my hea

of the week. Ury shook our hands firmly but sadly, promisin' to the last to see to things and not let the cows into the g

ettin' with a man acrost the aisle; Blandina got a seat with an aged gentleman while I sot down with a pale complected woman in deep mournin'. Or at least what mournin' s

wuz on a visit to her sister. She wuz feelin' dretful and said she didn't know what she

at we're goin' to do without him; we shall miss him so mak

n not at all. She got out at the next station, and my own pardner took the vacant seat by my side, and on

there and had a good visit. He keeps a dairy farm and owns forty cows besides a wife and three young children; he is doing well. His pa havin' a horticultural and floral turn of mind, named his two boys Lemon and Orange. His girls are Lily, Rose and Violet. Lily is dark complected and so

ds in 1764. America had several cities all started at that time, but St. Louis jest put in and growed, and now it is the fourth city in the United States. It's an awful worker, why it produces more in its factories than is produced by the hull of thirty-seven States, jest think on't! And it has thirty-two million folks t

-four children in one school-jest think on't! Its Union railroad station is the finest in the Universe, so they sa

twit 'em, but it is a solemn truth, the water is riley, they can't dispute it. I'd love to hand 'e

ss Huff's, a woman we used to know in Jon

ort of us two chaperones, we went there. We wuz tired to death that night anyway, and wanted a quiet haven and wanted it to once, for truly when Josiah pinted out the elegant buildin's that we passed I looked coldly on 'em, and said that there wuzn't one that looked so good to me as a goose

neighborhood and I d'no but part of Loontown and Zoar, it wuz imm

ance! Pay I

cheat 'em out of their pay or wuzn't able to pay. And he sez, "I'll let 'em know I am a solid man and have got money!" And he took

but he said he wuzn't goin' to have 'em insinuatin' in

she's got plenty and Josiah said, "Let her

ll make her feel bet

and it makes me

ne long hall after another, and walked and walked and walked, till I thought we should

in' for mail carriers, and we hain't niggers trainin' for a ca

ned and begun to go down stairs, and we follered him down two fl

to be put down suller amongst your cabbages and turnips! I want you to take us to so

the man, "they

unked for Josiah to keep still, but he wouldn't, but kep' on mutterin' whilst the man led us down two more flights, and into

the outskirts of Jonesville, and you've took liberties with us that you wouldn't if we had come from the heart of the village. But I'll let yo

e best on't. The hotel is built on a side hill, that's why we had to come down stairs; there are four stories more

ome nails that somebody had left in it, and the tabs hung down nobl

." And sure enough, on both sides on us wuz goin' on private convers

ots left in our lunch basket. So I called Blandina, her room wuz only je

rdness of the mattress and pillows, and the confidences

oom there, and comin' in one evenin' dretful tired from the day's tramp on the Fair ground lea

retful fashionable to marry and go to St. Louis on your tower. So they'

as wuz nateral, wuz readin' poetry to her, she settin' the picture of happiness and contentment with her feet

s love, sweet

hall ere thy sw

p, brandishin' aloft a boot and screamin' like a painter, as wuz only n

man, and everybody in St. Louis, and made the air blue with conversation that the Realm of Love never

is so; you can hear most anythi

to stay on the Fair ground and see the Pike, etc. But I sez: "Jo

and gin testimonies both on us. And Blandina bein' asked to by a man went forward for prayers and sot for a spell

of course to our own temporary home. But what do you think! that misuble, cheatin' man at the ga

Did you want us to hang round the meetin' house all

y look onto him and se

n. Square Baker of Jonesville will git onto your tracks, and you'd better have a tiger after you than have him when he's rousted up. Pay f

his change back, "Do yo

and me away from this

hootin' his sharpest arr

s to-

ell about it. We had fulfilled our duties as chaperones to the fullest extent, an

, young and good lookin', jest home from school; and a aged parent, toothless and no more hair on his head than on the cover of my glass butter di

n' so sort o' withy and soft than if they wuz more hard and

it wuz of Miss Huff. Dorothy's mother, I guess, didn't have much faculty and spent everything as she went along; she had an annuity that died with her, but she had been well enough off so

ee, her pretty golden head carried sunshine wherever it went. And her big blue eyes, full of mischief

na. The hull family loved and petted her from Miss Huff and her

she wuz made the mould wuz throwed away and never used afterwards. She follered Dorothy round like her shadow and helped m

he had good help and sot a good table, and Aunt Feeny as they called he

rnoon and rested the rest of that

akfast to buy a little peppermint essence, come in burnin' w

lway as the best way of seein' the Fair grounds as a hull b

way!" he snor

ah Allen." And I sithed as I thought how many took

to me about it thought I didn't fall in wit

e," sez I anxiously; "you know you hain't

peppermint more for him than for me. I laid out if he s

into forbidden paths and dissipation, but I didn't consider p

na looked up at him and follered his remarks as clost and stiddy as a sunflower follers the sun. She had told me that mornin' whilst I wuz gittin' ready to start that he wuz the loveliest young man she had ever

he, "Look at Aaron Burr and Lord Baconsfield," and she brung up a number more for me

a big job on my hands to tackle that day as first chaperone to Josiah, and I got her mind off for