So I suggested makin' a compromise on California.
[Illustration: A woman hates to give in awful, so I suggested a compromise on California.] And he agreed to it.

He, too, had seen a look of marble determination on my mean, and he dassent press the Vermont question too hard.
So we directed our steps towards the California Buildin'.

It is a exact reproduction of the old Monastery of San Diego, and one hundred thousand square feet is the size on't.
It is full of the products of California.

Sech fruit and flowers I never see, and don't expect to agin.
The flowers wuz gorgeous, and perfectly beautiful, and I spoze, though I don't really want to twit 'em of it, yet I do spoze they brought every mite of fruit out of California for this occasion.

I don't spoze there wuz a orange left there, or a grape, nor anything else in the line of fruit.