nose with a cord that wuz let down."

Why, I wouldn't a been surprised at nothin'--I felt a good deal of the
time jest like that in all of the buildin's, and I said so to my Josiah
when he'd try to surprise me by lookin' at some strange thing. "No,
Josiah," I would say, "I can't be surprised no more, the time for that
has gone by--gone by, a long time ago."

And then there wuz gobys, sticklebacks, sea-horses, devil-fishes, and I
believe there wuz a jell fish, though I didn't see it.

Though so fur as jell goes, as I told Josiah, I would ruther make my own
jell out of my own berries and crab-apples, and then I know how it's
made.

But, howsumever, there wuz all the fishes that ever swum in America,
Mexico, South America, Europe, and Asia, and I d'no but what there wuz a
few from Africa. And to see on the bottom of them aquarums shells
a-walkin' round, with the owners of them shells inside of 'em, wuz a
sight to see.

Why, any one here would have 60 or 70 emotions a minute right
along--a-seein' these, and a-meditatin' on the wonders of the deep.

And then there wuz the rainbow fish, which is found both on the Pacific
and Atlantic coasts--it has all the colors the rainbow ever had, and
more too.

And then to see our own magnificent water-lilies a-floatin' on top of
the water, and then to see 'em down under the water, with fishes
a-floatin' all amongst 'em--oh, what a sight! what a sight it wuz!

Outside of the buildin', when at last we did tear ourselves away from
that seen of enchantment, and went outside, I upheld by my motive to see
everything I could, and Josiah by the idee that we would step into a
restaurant that wuzn't fur away.

When outside we see a lot of ponds all illustratin' the best way of pond
culture, and all sorts of aquatic plants.

Wall, at Josiah's request, we went to the nighest place and had a cup of
tea and a good little lunch.

And then we went back to see the fish-hooks and things that is in the
west buildin' of the group.

Josiah said mebby he could git his eye on some new kind of a fish-hook.
He said he'd love to go beyend Deacon Henzy and Sime Yerden if he
could--they boasted so over their tackle.

And truly I should have thought he might have gone ahead of anything, or
anybody, if he could have carried 'em home. There wuz everything that
could be thought on, or that ever wuz seen in the form of fishin'
apparatus--every kind of hook, and spear, and rod, and queer-lookin'
baskets