Samantha at the World's Fair by Marietta Holley
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Of course I had been round enough in our woods and the swamp to know that there wuz several different kinds of wood--ellum and butnut, cedar and dog-wood, and so forth. But good land! to see the hundreds and thousands of kinds that I see here made anybody feel curious, curious as a dog, and made 'em feel, too, how enormous big the world is--and how little he or she is, as the case may be. The sides of the buildin' are made of slabs, with the bark took off, and the roof is thatched with tan-bark and other barks. The winder-frames are made in the same rustic, wooden way. The main entrances are made of different kinds of wood, cut and carved first-rate. All around this buildin' is a veranda, and supportin' its roof is a long row of columns, each composed of three tree trunks twenty-five feet in length--one big one and the other two smaller. These wuz contributed by the different States and Territories and by foreign countries, each sendin' specimens of its most noted trees. And right here wuz when I felt mad at myself, mad as a settin' hen, to think how forgetful I had been, and how lackin' in what belongs to good manners and politeness. |
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