It looks some like pure white satin, and some different.

It is as beautiful as any dress ever could be, and Eulaly will look real sweet in it.

She'll be sorry to not have me see her in it, I hain't a doubt.
[Illustration: It took ten million feet of glass thread, and Eulaly will look real sweet in it.] And oh, how I did wish, as I looked at it, that her ancestor could have seen it, and meditated how pert and forwards the land wuz that he'd discovered! Glass dresses--the idee! But Josiah looked kinder oneasy all the time that I wuz a-lookin' at it; he wuz afraid of what thoughts I might be entertainin' in my mind onbeknown to him, and he hurried me onwards.
But the very next place we come to be wuz still more anxious to proceed rapidly, for this wuz the Irish Village, where native wimmen make the famous Irish laces.
It wuz a perfect Irish village, lackin' the dirt, and broken winders, and the neighborly pigs, and etc.
At one end of it is the exact reproduction of the ancient castle Donegal, famed in song and story.

In the rooms of this castle the lace wuz exhibited--beautiful laces as I ever see, or want to see, and piles and piles of it, and of every beautiful pattern.
I did hanker for some of it to trim a night-cap.

As I told Josiah, "I wouldn't give a cent for any of the white lace dresses, not if I had to wear 'em, or white lace cloaks." Sez I, "I'd feel like a fool a-goin' to meetin' or to the store to carry off butter with a white lace dress on, or a white lace mantilly, but I would love dearly to own some of that narrer lace for a night-cap border." But his anxiety wuz extreme to go on that very instant.
He wanted to see the Blarney stun on top of the tower of the castle.