And I'll bring things all right yet, honey -- cheer up and don't you fear.

The railroad----" "Oh, I had forgotten the railroad, dear, but when a body gets blue, a body forgets everything.

Yes, the railroad--tell me about the railroad." "Aha, my girl, don't you see?
Things ain't so dark, are they?
Now I didn't forget the railroad.

Now just think for a moment--just figure up a little on the future dead moral certainties.

For instance, call this waiter St.Louis.
"And we'll lay this fork (representing the railroad) from St.Louis to this potato, which is Slouchburg: "Then with this carving knife we'll continue the railroad from Slouchburg to Doodleville, shown by the black pepper: "Then we run along the--yes--the comb--to the tumbler that's Brimstone: "Thence by the pipe to Belshazzar, which is the salt-cellar: "Thence to, to--that quill--Catfish--hand me the pincushion, Marie Antoinette: "Thence right along these shears to this horse, Babylon: "Then by the spoon to Bloody Run--thank you, the ink: "Thence to Hail Columbia--snuffers, Polly, please move that cup and saucer close up, that's Hail Columbia: "Then--let me open my knife--to Hark-from-the-Tomb, where we'll put the candle-stick--only a little distance from Hail Columbia to Hark-from-the-Tomb--down-grade all the way.
"And there we strike Columbus River--pass me two or throe skeins of thread to stand for the river; the sugar bowl will do for Hawkeye, and the rat trap for Stone's Landing-Napoleon, I mean--and you can see how much better Napoleon is located than Hawkeye.