[Samantha at the World’s Fair by Marietta Holley]@TWC D-Link bookSamantha at the World’s Fair CHAPTER XII 6/13
The next time she had had her arm put on. I guess Uncle Sam done it.
That old man is a-gittin' waked up, and Eternal Right is a-hunchin' him in the sides. She wuz a-holdin' that right arm up towards the Heavens; the fingers wuz curved a little--they seemed to be begenin' to sunthin' up in the sky to come down and bless the world. Mebby it wuz Justice she wuz a-callin' on to come down and watch over the rights of wimmen.
Anyway, she looked as well agin with both arms on her. Amongst the wonders of beauty in the French exhibit we see that vase of Gustave Dore's.
That attracted crowds of admirers the hull time; it stood up fifteen feet high, and every inch of it wuz beautiful enough for the very finest handkerchief pin! There wuz hundreds of figgers from the animal and vegetable kingdom, and Mythology--cupids, nymphs, birds, and butterflies disportin' themselves in the most graceful way, and such beautiful female figgers!--Venuses as beautiful as dreams, and over all, and through all, wuz a-trailin' the rich clusters of the vine. The figgers seemed at first sight to kind o' encourage wine-makin' and wine-drinkin'.
But look clost, and you'd see on one side, workin' his stiddy way up through the fairy landscape, up through the gay revellers, a venemous serpent wuz a-creepin'. He wuz bound to be there, and Venus or Nymph, or any of 'em that touched that foamin' wine, had to be stung by his deadly venoms.
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