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Samantha at the World’s Fair

CHAPTER XVI
10/18

It must felt proud-sperited in all of its old jints, but it acted well and snorted with the best on 'em.

The 999, the fastest engine in the world, wuz by the side of the Clinton, the first engine ever made.

I opened the coach door and got in.

It looked jest like a common two-seated buggy of to-day, with seats on top, and water and wood to run it with kep in barrels behind the engine.
And England and Germany, not to be outdone, brung over some of their finest railroads.

Why, Wales brought over some of the actual stun ties and iron rails of the first railway in Great Britain; and as for the splendor of the coaches, they go beyend anything that wuz ever seen in the world.


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