I saw her just now, and if you could have seen the look of distress and terror on her face as she sprang to the old man's side you would feel as I do about this business.

Yon would know, as I do, that this was no fake, but a square--A, number one--show, packed full and running over with good things, worth ten times the price of admission.
You'd know that it was just the bulliest show ever seen on this little old river, and you'd turn in with a will to help me prove it.

I am a stranger, just arrived in town, and never set eyes on this outfit before; but I'm willing to put up my last dollar on the fact that this show is so much better than I've said that as soon as you've seen it once, you'll want to see it right over again, you'll come to it every evening that it stays here, and then you'll follow it down the river on the chance of seeing it again.

Hello, inside! Turn on your steam, and set your whirligig to moving." By this time the good-nature of the audience was fully restored, and, amid encouraging cries of "That's the talk!" "Ring the jingle-bell and give her a full head!" "Sweep her out into the current and toot your horn, stranger!" the panorama began slowly to unroll.

The young man picked up the pointer, and the moment the second picture--a lurid scene that Cap'n Cod had entitled "The Burning of Moscow"-- was fully exposed to view, he began: "There you have it, gentlemen! One of the most thrilling events of this century.