Wall, after a numerous number of emotions we at last reached our destination and stoppin'-place.

And I gin a deep sithe of relief as the wheel of the carriage grated on the curb-stun, in front of the boardin' house where my Josiah and me laid out to git our two boards.
Thomas J.and Krit wanted to go to one of the big hotels.

I spozed, from their talk, it wuz reasonable, and wuz better for their business, that they should be out amongst business men.
But Josiah and I didn't want to go to any such place.

We had our place all picked out, and had had for some time, ever sence we had commenced to git ready for the World's Fair.
We had laid out to git our two boards at a good quiet place recommended by our own Methodist Episcopal Pasture, and a distant relation of his own.
It wuz to Miss Ebenezer Plank'ses, who took in a few boarders, bein' middlin' well off, and havin' a very nice house to start with, but wanted to add a little to her income, so she took in a few and done well by 'em, so our pasture said, and so we found out.

It wuz a splendid-lookin' house a-standin' a-frontin' a park, where anybody could git a glimpse of green trees and a breath of fresh air, and as much quiet and rest as could be found in Chicago durin' the summer of 1893, so I believed.
Thomas J.and Maggie wuz perfectly suited with the place for us--and Thomas J.parleyed with Miss Plank about our room, etc .-- and we wuz all satisfied with the result.
And after Josiah and me got settled down in our room, a good-lookin' one, though small, the children sot off for their hotel, which wuzn't so very fur from ourn, nigh enough so that they could be sent for easy, if we wuz took down sudden, and visey versey.
I found Miss Plank wuz a good-appearin' woman, and a Christian, I believe, with good principles, and a hair mole on her face, though she kep 'em curbed down, and cut off (the hairs).
[Illustration: A good-appearin' woman.] Her husband had been a man of wealth, as you could see plain by the house that he left her a-livin' in.