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Samantha at the World’s Fair

CHAPTER XVIII
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Why, it all makes folks feel a good deal like Belschazarses, only more riz up like.

He felt guilty as a dog, which must hendered his lofty emotions from playin' free; but folks that see this awsome and magestick spectacle don't have nothin' to drag down their soarin' emotions.
Why, I'll bet that I had more emotions durin' that sight than Belschazar had when he see his writin' on the wall, only different.

I guess that mine wuz more like Daniel's, though I can't tell, havin' never talked it over with Daniel.

But to resoom.
When we left the Electrical Buildin', it wuz so nigh at hand we jest stepped acrost into the Hall of Mines and Minin'.

And it wuz dretful curious, wuzn't it?
Here we two wuz on the surface of the Earth, and we had jest been a-studyin' in a entranced way the workin's of a mighty sperit, who wuz, in the first place, brung down from _above_ the Earth, and now, lo and behold! we wuz on our way to see what wuz below the Earth.
Curious and coincidin', very.
Wall, as I walked acrost them few steps I thought of a good many things.
One thing I thought on wuz the path I wuz a-walkin' on.
I d'no as I've mentioned it before, but them foot-paths at the World's Fair are as worthy of attention as anything as there is there.
I'll bet Columbus would have been glad to had such paths to walk on when he wuz foot-sore, and tired out.
They are made of a compound of granite and cement, and are as smooth as a board, and as durable as adamant.
What a boon sech roads would be in the Spring and the Fall! How it would lessen profanity, and broken wagons, and broken-backed horses! Folks say that they will be used throughout the World.


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