would take more than all these waters to wash it out and make the
country clean agin.

But she had one of her spells, and whether she wuz well or whether she
wuz sick, New York lied jest like a dog about it.

Whether she wuz crazy or not, the fact remained that she had bragged,
and then gin out; had promised, and not performed.

I believe she wuz out of her head.

Then there wuz the same kind of a performance she went through with the
Goddess of Liberty.

When France had gin that beautiful and most wondeful creeter to us as a
present, it looked sort o' shabby in New York to not provide a platform
for that female to stand up on.

Now, didn't it? She a-offerin' to light up the world if she only had a
place to stand up on--and the great continent of America not bein'
willin' to gin it to her.

[Illustration: She a-offerin' to light up the world, if she only had
a place to stand up on.]

New York talked--oh, yes, it wuz a-goin' to do great things! Oh, what a
big, noble door-step it wuz a-layin' out to rize up for that goddess to
stand on!

But there it wuz, New York had one of her spells agin, lost her