And as we wuz jest approachin' the station where we wuz to be left, he
ceased his remarks, and held his horse in.

He helped me to alight, and I thanked him for his kindness, and acted as
polite as a person could whose brain lay a wreck in the upper part of
her head. The last word Mr. Bolster said to us wuz, as he gathered up
the reins, sez he:

"Thirty-six lines of cars come to and leave Chicago, which, with its
immense shipping facilities, makes it the--"

But the cars tooted jest then, and I didn't hear his last words, and I
wuz glad on't, as I say, I had thanked him before.

But good land! he would have carried two giraffes or camels willin'ly if
he could have got 'em into his buggy, and sot 'em up by him on the seat,
and could have boasted to 'em understandin'ly about Chicago. But I guess
he is well-meanin'.




CHAPTER X.


Wall, after he left us we boarded some cars, and found ourselves, with
the inhabitants of several States, I should judge, borne onwards towards
the White City.

And anon, or about that time, we found ourselves at a depot, where wuz