He wuzn't to blame--he couldn't hold 'em.

Jest like Josiah; lots of times he would be real glad to do things, only his hands are full.
And then another group wuz a beautiful female a-standin' up between two great, big, long-horned oxen, a-holdin' them powerful-lookin' beasts with a rope made of posies.
Good land! I wouldn't held 'em with iron chains.

They looked so high-headed, and their horns looked so long, and it seemed too bad to put her at such a dangerous job.
But she didn't seem to be a mite afraid; she looked calm, and she had on plenty of store clothes, which wuz indeed a comfort.
[Illustration: She didn't seem to be a mite afraid.] And then, besides these main piers, with their large, beautiful groups, there wuz fifty-two smaller piers, each one havin' a handsome statute, representin' winged Geniis, sometimes a-holdin' tablets in their hands, and anon horns of plenty, and abundance.
Most of this beautiful sculpture wuz designed by a man named Martiney, French born, but I guess a-callin' himself an American now.
And I thought, as I looked at it, I would love to see him, and tell him how well I thought on him and his works.

He also made the beautiful orniments in the interior of the large rotunda, and the great figger of Ceres that stands in the centre.
In the pediment over the main entrance stands another beautiful figger of Ceres--she that wuz Demetor Saturn.
I spoze, mebby, now we ort to call her Miss Jupiter.

But, anyway, she is as good-hearted as can be, always a-handin' out grain and food to the perishin'.
Here she stands in the sculpture, which is made by an American, Mr.Mead by name--here she stands, tall and benignant, in the centre of as many as twenty men, wimmen, and children, a-sufferin' from hunger the most on 'em, and she a-handin' out food right and left.