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Then I slips out to where Vincent is waitin'. "Buildin' on fire?" says I. "Why, no, sir," says be, goin' bug-eyed. "Oh!" says I. "Then who you got waitin' out there Secretary Daniels or the Czar of Russia?" Vincent pinks up like a geranium and smiles shy, like he always does when he's kidded. "If you please, sir," says he, "it's only a lady; to see Mr. Mason, sir."

But it wuz all made of grasses of different kinds the idee! Fifteen young ladies of Illinois made that, and they done first-rate. I want 'em to know what I think on't, and what Josiah duz. Wall, inside the buildin' wuz full and runnin' over with beautiful objects lovely picters, noble statuary, beautiful works of art and industry done by the sons and daughters of the State.

"I don't spoze it will take long, anyway, to see all that wimmen has brung here and I spoze the buildin' will be a sight all trimmed off with ornaments, and flowers, and tattin'; mebby they will have lace all festooned on the outside." Sez he, "I always did want to see a house trimmed with bobinet lace on the outside, and tattin' and ribbin streamers."

"Rousseau comes in, and de whole crew wid 'im, t' see de fight. 'Pull off yer shirts, says de cap'm, an' we done it. 'Wait, says de bos'n; 'de deck jes' be'n swabbed down why bloody hit up, Cap'm? How 'bout lettin' 'em fight on shore? "Day was a flatform 'side a buildin' nex' to de water. Dey all line de rail an' let us go ashore t' scrap hit out.

But he wuz a-sleepin' now peaceful, forgittin' his enthusiasm, while I, who took it calm at the time, kep awake to muse on the glory of the spectacle. After we left the Horticultural Buildin' I proposed that we should branch out for once and git a fashionable dinner. "Dinner!" sez Josiah. "Are you crazy, or what does ail you? Talk about gittin' dinner at this time of day most bedtime!"

Nigger Dick began to act awful mysterious and say, "You can't fool this nigger," and he kept goin' back and forth from the window to the fence, lookin' at the ground. And by and by he went and asked ma if he could go down town. He wanted to see my pa about somethin'. So he went off, and Mitch and I went on makin' garden, till ma came and set us to work buildin' a flower bed.

But when they were out of sight he said darkly to the chief justice and the Chancellor of the Exchequer: "I didn't have the heart to bring it up before, but there's the devil of a problem buildin' up against the time he comes back." "Which problem?" asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, warily. "It's the sn ... the porcupine killers," said the solicitor general. "Things look bad for them.

And as I walked through that lofty and most beautiful place and realized the size and majestic proportions of the buildin' I wondered to myself that a small law, a little unjust law could ever be passed in such grand and magnificent surroundin's.

He had a big passel of carpenters down from the city, and inside of three months the buildin' was up, and she was a daisy, now I tell you. There was a readin' room and a meetin' room and an 'amusement room. The amusements was crokinole and parchesi and checkers and the like of that.

This was an unwelcome piece of intelligence to Lanty, who, finding that his enemies were such as he could not cope with, walked out, and addressed them as follows: 'Gintlemen, I humbly ax yer pardon for buildin' on any place belongin' to you; but if you'll have the civilitude to let me alone this night, I'll begin to pull down and remove the house to-morrow morning.