If he'd had his way, he would had a good square meal in every foreign country, and native one, too.

That man's appetite is wonderful.
Foreign countries can't quell it down, nor rumatiz, nor nothin'.
Hakenbeck's animal show comes next, and it is the most complete--so they say--that wuz ever exhibited.
The tent is two hundred feet square, and is filled with all the animals that ever went into the Ark, and more, too, I believe.

Five thousand people can go in here at one time, and set down, and see lions a-ridin' on horseback, with a woman to run the performance, and see animals a-doin' everything else that ever wuz done by 'em, and tigers, and elephants, and performin' horses, and two hundred monkeys, and one thousand parrots.
We didn't go in, but Josiah slipped in one day when I wuzn't with him, and he described it to me.

He owned up to me that he had.
And he said he did it to keep me from havin' sech a skair.
"Why," sez he, "a woman that is afraid of a gobbler, and runs from a snake-- "Why," sez he, "I wouldn't as a man of feelin' take her right in the way of havin' her feelin's hurt and skairin' her most to death for nothin' this world could give." And I said--and I meant it--"If it hadn't been for the fifty cents I guess you wouldn't felt so, Josiah Allen." But he stuck to it that it wuz pure affection and principle.

I d'no what to think about it, but I have my suspicions.
Wall, at the next place Josiah could not be restrained.