[Samantha at the World’s Fair by Marietta Holley]@TWC D-Link bookSamantha at the World’s Fair CHAPTER XIX 7/37
He told me from the first on't that he wuzn't goin' to pay out a cent of money there.
Sez he, "We can see enough--Heaven knows we can--without payin' for any sights." Wall, here we see all kinds of American glass manufactured, from goblets and butter-dishes up to glass draperies, dresses, laces, neckties, and all sorts of orniments. Josiah sez, "Samantha, oh, how I would like a glass necktie--it would be so uneek; how I could show off to Deacon Gowdy!" "Wall," sez I, "we can try to buy one, and at the same time I will order a glass polenay." "Oh, no," sez he, "it would be too resky; glass is so brittle it would make you restive." And he tried to hurry me along, but I would look round a little; and we see there right before our face and eyes a man take a long tube and dip it into melted glass, and blow out cups and flower-vases, and trim 'em all off with flowers of glass of all colors, and sech cut glass as we see there I never see before; why, one little piece takes a man a month to cut it out into its diamond glitter. And I would stop to see that glass dress all finished off for the Princess Eulaly.
There it wuz in plain sight in Mr.Libby's factory draped on a wax figger of Eulaly.
Mr.Libby made it and presented it to the Princess. It took ten million feet of glass thread; it wuz wove into twelve yards of cloth, and sent to a dressmaker in New York, who fitted it to the Princess on her last days in the city.
It is low neck and short sleeves, and has a row of glass fringe round the bottom, and soft glass ruching round the neck and sleeves.
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