nowledge--always casts such shadders, some as our sun duz, only
blacker.

And every one of them old engines by the help of machinery is moved and
turned, just as if Old Time himself had laid his hour-glass offen his
head, and wuz a-puttin' his old shoulders under their iron shafts, and
a-settin' them to goin' agin, after so long a time.

How I wished as I looked at 'em that Stevenson and the rest of them men
who lived, and worked, and suffered ahead of their time, could a been
there to see the fruit of their glowin' fancies blow out in full bloom!

But then I thought, as I looked out of a winder into the clear, blue
depths of sky overhead, Like as not they are here now, their souls
havin' wrought out some finer existence, so etheral that our coarser
senses couldn't recognize 'em--mebby they wuz right here round the old
home of their thoughts, as men's dreams will hang round the homes of
their boyhood.

Who knows now? I don't, nor Josiah.

The New York Central exhibit shows the old Mohawk and Hudson train, a
model of the first locomotive sot a-goin' on the Hudson in 1807 with a
boundin' heart and a tremblin' hand by Robert Fulton, and which wuz
pushed off from the pier and propelled onwards by the sneerin', mockin',
unbelievin' laughs of the spectators as much as from the breezes that
swept up from the south.

I would gin a cent freely and willin'ly if I could a seen Robert stand
there side by side with that old locomotive and the fastest lightin'
express of to-day--like seed and harvest--with Josiah and me for a
verdant and sympathizin' background.

Oh, what a sight it would a been, if his emotions could a been laid
bare, and mine, too!

It would a been a sight long to remember.

But to resoom.

The first locomotive ever seen in Chicago wuz there a-puffin' out its
own steam. It must felt proud-sperited in all of its old jints, but it
acted well and snorted with the best on 'em. The 999, the fastest engine
in the world, wuz by the side of the Clinton, the first engine ever
made. I opened the coach door and got in. It looked jest like a common
two-seated buggy of to-day, with seats on top, and water and wood to run
it with kep in barrels behind the engine.

And England and Germany, not to be outdone, brung over some of their
finest railroads. Why, Wales brought over some of the actual stun ties
and iron rails of the first railway in Great Britain; and as for the
splendor of the coaches, they go beyend anythi