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Folks can dance here all the time from mornin' till night, if they want to, but we didn't want to dance no, indeed! nor see it; our legs wuz too wore out, and so wuz our eyes, so we wended on to the Lapland Village. The main buildin' in this is a hundred feet long, with a square tower in the centre. Above the main entrance is a large paintin' representin' a scene in Lapland.
Now let's put the new buildin' to test." More papers were pawed over. "Yahn, how's this double as many children, one teacher an' the buildin' so an' so." Yan figured a minute and said, "Twenty-five feet each."
Alpheus Bassett, down to the Point a great, strong, fleshy man, weighs close to two hundred and fifty and never sick a day in his life he was up in the second story of his buildin' walkin' around spry as anybody all alone, which he shouldn't have been at his age and he stepped on a fish and away he went. And the next thing we hear he's in bed with his collar-bone.
First mornin' we started him out early for the Battery, to size up the Bowling Green Buildin' and the Aquarium. About noon he limps in with his hat all dirt and ashes up and down his back.
Photograph, charts, maps, and not only all our own educational exhibits, but England, France, Germany, Russia, China, and in short all the foreign countries. We stayed a good while there and I would have loved to stay longer, but Josiah got worrisome and wanted to go on to Electricity Buildin' which wuz next in our programmy.
Camp still stood with the bill in his hand, open-mouthed and evidently puzzled; and now his wife, who had drawn closer and was peering into my face, turned upon him quickly. 'Adam Camp, put up that money! she cried. 'I know this feller; I seen him talkin' to you back there by the Administration Buildin'; and he's been watchin' and follerin' us ever sence. I know him!
There wuz everything in the buildin' that has been hearn on up to the present time in connection with electricity everything that we know about, that that Magician uses to show off his magic powers, from a search-light of 60,000 candle power down to a engine and dynamo combined, that can be packed in a box no bigger than a pea.
He rubbed his stubby, sandy chin and hitched his shirt sleeve garter higher, "I hain't collecting for myself," he assured her, "I only collects for the receiver for the estate you can see 'im if you like he's up in th' Temple Bar buildin'." He was so good as to jot down the number of the room for her.
"'Come back, if ye dare, says Pritchen, an' the men hooted as the poor chap walked from the buildin' as proud as a lord. "I follered 'im to his cabin, fer I was sore hit, an' stood with 'im as he was ready to leave. He had his rifle, snow-shoes, his medical case, an' a small pack of grub on his back. He wouldn't say much, not even whar he was goin'. He seemed like a man in a dream.
'Nd," to the policeman, "yeh stay here an' hold up anybody 't tries tuh leave th' buildin'. There ain't no other entrance, I s'pose, what?" "Basement door an' ash lift's round th' corner," responded the officer. "But that had ought tuh be locked, night." "Well, 'f anybody else comes along yeh put him there, anyway, for luck.... What 'n hell's th' matter with this elevator?"
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