There wuz some kinder stern-lookin' guards a-watchin' over these, but they had no need to be afraid; I wouldn't have meddled with one of 'em no more'n I'd've torn out the Book of Job out of the family Bible.
[Illustration: Stern-lookin' guards a-watchin' over the coins.] There wuz everything under the sun that could be seen in South America, from a mule to a orchid.
And in the centre of the buildin' wuz a section of the great Sequois tree from California.

The tree is twenty-five feet in diameter, and has been hollowed out, and a stairway built up inside of it.

Stairs inside of a tree! Good land! But what is the use, I have only waded out a few steps.

The deep lake lays before us.
I hain't gin much idee of all there is to see in that buildin', and I hain't in any on 'em.
You have got to swim out for yourself, and then you may have some idee of the vastness on't.

But you can't describe 'em, I don't believe--nobody can't.
In front of that buildin' we see one of the two largest guns ever made in the world.
It wuz made in Essen, Germany.