ime a-lookin' round, and a-meditatin' on
how useful this ship and others like it would be in case another war
should break out, and how them ships and what is contained in 'em would
be the means of savin' America and Jonesville.

And I had quite a number of emotions, and I guess Josiah did too.

And then we kinder sauntered along on that broad, smooth path by the
side of Lake Michigan, and kinder looked off onto her with a
affectionate look, and neighbored some with her.

Her waters looked dretful peaceful and calm, after seein' everybody in
the hull world, and hearin' every voice that ever wuz hearn, a-talkin'
in every language, and seein' every strange costume that wuz ever worn,
and etc., etc., etc.

And so we sauntered along till we got to the Casino, and Music Hall
a-risin' up at the eastern end of the grand basin.

We had laid out to come here before, and should, most probable, if the
hull of music had been shet up inside of that tall, impressive-lookin'
buildin'; but truly music had cheered our souls frequent on our daily
pilgrimages, so we had neglected to pay attention to the Music Hall and
Casino till now.

Josiah wuz anxious to attend to it.

And I myself felt that Duty drawed me, bein' quite a case for music.

And havin' led the choir for years before my marriage to Josiah Allen,
and havin' married a man that _sez_ he can sing.

But if the noise he makes is singin', then I would be willin' to say
that I never had riz the eight notes, or fell 'em neither.

But he sez that he loves music; and he had talked quite a good deal to
me about the Music Hall and Casino.

That Casino didn't sound quite right; it sounded sunthin' like
"Seven-Up" and "Pedro," and I told him so.

But he said that "it wuz all right;" he said "that it wuz took from the
Hebrew."

But I believe he said that to blind my eyes. Wall, when we hove in sight
of it we see the high towers that riz up above it some distance off,
with flags a-comin' kinder out of it on both sides, some like a
stupendious pump, with handles on both sides and red table-cloths
a-hangin' over 'em, but immense--immense in height.

Wall, I spozed it would look as well agin there as the Jonesville
Singin' School, and be fur bigger.

But good land! and good land!

Why, jest the entrance to them buildin's is enough to strike the most
careless beholder with or. Such pillows, and such arches, and such
ornaments, I never expected to see till I got through with