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And it bein' past our lunch time we went and had a good meal, and of course Josiah's crossness subsided with every mouthful he took and his liniment looked like a cosset lamb's in amiability when I proposed we should go to the Fishery Buildin', it wuzn't so very fur from there considerin', though as I have said before every place is a good ways off from anywhere else.
Asked about life in pioneer days, the old negro replied; "We had lots ob good times in dem days. Log rollings wuz lots ob fun to me as I wuz strong den, an' I could "show off" befo' de odder niggers. Dey wuzn't much rollin' to it, mostly carrying. I mind de time when I lifted de end ob a log, an' four men tried at different times to lift de odder, but dey couldn't do it.
It seemed as if everything that could be known about trees and plants could be learnt here, and though we knowed we hadn't time or convenience to take all the knowledge in, no, our heads wuzn't big enough, but they felt crowded full as we left this buildin'. And that I felt wuz the crownin' glory of this fair, the new idees and knowledge of better ways and things that wuz learnt in all these exhibits, and wuz destined in the future to bear fruit and bless the world.
And scattered all over the ground roamed the happy people, men, wimmen and children of every name and nation, clothed in every garb that folks ever wore under the sun, and some, it seemed to me, made up jest for that occasion, as Eve started her new fashion of fall dress, only this wuzn't made of leaves, no indeed! fur from it. But I believe the foreign costoom we see most of all wuz the Japan.
Deacon Sypher wanted his wife to know at once that if she wuzn't married she could have become a deaconess under his derectin'.
"Don't be provokin', Ephr'm what makes you talk in that dou'fle way?" "Wa'al, ma, the world hain't all squeezed into this yere little town of Crankett. I've been elsewheres, some, an' I've seed some funny things, and likewise some that wuzn't so funny ez they might be." "P'r'aps ye hev, but ye needn't allus be a-settin' other folks down.
He wuz satisfied with makin' enough to live on. Live and let live was his motto. "And Mr. Regulus, the leader of the great Roman forces, wuz satisfied with his little farm of seven acres, creepin' up a little in amount from four to seven. But it wuzn't till long, long afterwards that the rich grew enormously rich and the poor poorer, and what a man had wuz honored instead of what he wuz.
"For," sez he: When Right opposes Wrong, shall Evil win? Nay, never; but the years of God are long. And he counseled his hearers to keep on and work work and follow the leadin' of Him who shall conquer all sin and evil. It wuz a grand and powerful effort. It wuzn't so flowery as I've hearn, but the strength, the pathos of it wuz wonderful.
But I desisted from the enterprise for 2 reasons, one wuz, that it didn't go, as I say, clear up, and the other wuz that the stairs wuzn't finished. Josiah proposed that he should go up as he clim up our well, with one foot on each side on't. He said he wuz tempted to, for he wanted dretfully to look out of them windows on the top. And he said it would probable be expected of him.
I wuzn't gone over a hour, and, when I went back, I went up-stairs the first thing; and I found Cicely a cryin, though there was a softer, more contented look in her eyes than I had seen there for a long time. And I says, "What is the matter, Cicely?" And she says, "Oh! if I had been a better woman, I could have seen my mother! she has been here!"
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