Nine hundred, dollars?
Is that all?
This check for the amount will be honored at any respectable bank in America.

What is that multitude of people gathered in the street for?
How?
--'looking at the lightning-rods!' Bless my life, did they never see any lightning-rods before?
Never saw 'such a stack of them on one establishment,' did I understand you to say?
I will step down and critically observe this popular ebullition of ignorance."] THREE DAYS LATER .-- We are all about worn out.

For four-and-twenty hours our bristling premises were the talk and wonder of the town.

The theaters languished, for their happiest scenic inventions were tame and commonplace compared with my lightning-rods.

Our street was blocked night and day with spectators, and among them were many who came from the country to see.