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Samantha at the World’s Fair

CHAPTER IX
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But," sez I, "my brain _shall not_ totter under none of your beer and whiskey statisticks." And as I spoke I put my hand to my fore-top, and I looked quite bad, and truly I felt so.
He glanced at me, and see that I wuz not in a situation to be trifled with.
And as we wuz jest approachin' the station where we wuz to be left, he ceased his remarks, and held his horse in.
He helped me to alight, and I thanked him for his kindness, and acted as polite as a person could whose brain lay a wreck in the upper part of her head.

The last word Mr.Bolster said to us wuz, as he gathered up the reins, sez he: "Thirty-six lines of cars come to and leave Chicago, which, with its immense shipping facilities, makes it the--" But the cars tooted jest then, and I didn't hear his last words, and I wuz glad on't, as I say, I had thanked him before.
But good land! he would have carried two giraffes or camels willin'ly if he could have got 'em into his buggy, and sot 'em up by him on the seat, and could have boasted to 'em understandin'ly about Chicago.

But I guess he is well-meanin'..


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