And there is pieces of the house his father-in-law built for him--a cane made from one of the jistes, and the shutters of one of the windows.

Columbuses own hand may have opened them shutters! O my heart! think on't.
And then there wuz the original copy of the first books relatin' to America, over one hundred of 'em, obtained from the Vatican at Rome, and museums, and libraries, in London, and Paris, and Madrid, and Washington, D.C.They are writ by Lords, and Cardinals, and Bishops, way back as fur as fourteen hundred and ninety-three.
Then there wuz quaint maps and charts of the newly discovered country, lookin' some as our first maps would of Mars, if the United States had made up its mind to annex that planet, and Uncle Sam had jest begun to lay it out into countries.
Then there are the portraits of Columbus.

Good creeter! it seemed a pity to see so many of 'em--his enemies might keep right on abusin' him, and say that he wuz double-faced, or sixty or eighty faced, when I know, and they all ort to know, that he wuz straightforward and stiddy as the sun.
Poor creeter! it wuz too bad that there should be so many of 'em.
[Illustration (handwritten in the illustration): These are my authentic portraits! Ch.

Columbus, Esq.

mp] [Illustration: Poor creeter! it wuz too bad that there should be so many of 'em.] Then there are models and photographs of statutes and monuments of him, and the very stun and clay that them tall monuments is made of, mebby they are the very stuns that hurt his bare feet, and the clay the very same his tears had fell on, as he'd throw himself down heart-weary on his lonesome pilgrimages.