eakfast to home, and
a-eatin' supper with the Widder Albert, or some of her folks, and
spendin' the night with the Sphynx, a-settin' out by moonlight on the
pyramids--a-settin' on the top stun, my feet on another one, and my chin
in my hand, a-meditatin' on queer things, and a-neighborin' with 'em.
From Jonesville to the Desert of Sarah, in a flash, as it were.

Where wuz the old democrat--where, oh, where wuz she? Ask the ocean
waves as they break in thunder on the cliff, and hain't heard from no
more--ask 'em, and if they answer you, you may hear from the old
democrat.

And then there wuz all kinds of vessels, and boats, and steamships, and
canal-boats, and yachts, and elevators, and water railways.

Why, right there in plain sight wuz a section sixty feet long of one of
the new Atlantic steamers, cut out of the ship, some as you cut a
quarter out of an orange, or cut off a stick of candy.

You can see the hull of the ship in that one piece, from the hold to the
upper deck--it looks like a structure five stories high--it shows the
state-room, saloon, music-room, and so forth, fitted up exactly as they
are at sea, gorgeous and comogeous in the extreme.

And here is the reproduction of the Viking ship, nine hundred years
old--dug up in a sand-hill in Norway, in 1880. It is fitted up exactly
as the Storm Kings of one thousand years ago used 'em--thirty-two oars,
each seventeen feet long. Mebby that same ship brung over some Vikings
here when the old Newport Mill wuz new.

The English exhibit has a model of H.M.S. Victoria, three hundred and
sixty feet long; there is a immense lookin'-glass behind this model, so
as to make it look complete, and it is a sight to behold--a sight.

Why, the U.S. has models of their great steamships, the Etruria and
the Umbria, and there are every kind of vessels that wuz ever hearn on,
for trade, pleasure, or war, and all kinds of Oriental ships, and all
kinds of craft that ever floated in every ocean and river of the known
world.

From a miniature Egyptian canoe, found in a tomb, to the sheep-skin
rafts of the Euphrates and the dugouts of Africa, with sails, to the
gorgeous sail-boats of the Adriatic and the most ancient vessels in the
world.

What a sight! what a sight! It would take weeks to jest count 'em, let
alone studyin' 'em as you ort.

And every machine in the known world for propellin' boats and railways,
from steam to lightnin'.

Where wuz my old mair in such a seen