ade that, and they done first-rate. I
want 'em to know what I think on't, and what Josiah duz.

Wall, inside the buildin' wuz full and runnin' over with beautiful
objects--lovely picters, noble statuary, beautiful works of art and
industry done by the sons and daughters of the State.

It would take more'n a week to do any justice to it. Illinois done
splendid. I want her to know how I appreciated it. She'll be glad to
know how riz up I felt there.

Wall, when we left there we had a little dialogue--not mad exactly, but
earnest.

I wanted to go and see Great Britain, and Josiah wanted to go to Vermont
(he has got a third cousin a-livin' there, and he wanted to see him).
"Wall," sez I, "we've got a mother to tend to; the Mother Country calls
for a little filial attention."

"Oh, shaw!" sez he; "I guess you feel more related than they do; and,"
sez he, "I shall go to Vermont. Mebby I shall meet Bildad Allen right
there in the settin'-room."

So there it wuz--we wuz both determined. I see by my companion's mean
that it wouldn't do to insist on Great Britain.

But a woman hates to give in awful. So I suggested makin' a compromise
on California.

[Illustration: A woman hates to give in awful, so I suggested a
compromise on California.]

And he agreed to it. He, too, had seen a look of marble determination
on my mean, and he dassent press the Vermont question too hard.

So we directed our steps towards the California Buildin'. It is a exact
reproduction of the old Monastery of San Diego, and one hundred thousand
square feet is the size on't.

It is full of the products of California. Sech fruit and flowers I never
see, and don't expect to agin.

The flowers wuz gorgeous, and perfectly beautiful, and I spoze, though I
don't really want to twit 'em of it, yet I do spoze they brought every
mite of fruit out of California for this occasion. I don't spoze there
wuz a orange left there, or a grape, nor anything else in the line of
fruit. Mebby there might a been one or two green oranges left, but I
doubt it.

And as for canned and dried fruit, I don't spoze there wuz a teacupful
left in the hull State.

Why, jest think of the dried prunes it must have took to make that horse
that wuz rared up there seven feet from the floor!

And wuzn't that horse a sight to see?--jest as nateral as though he wuz
made of flesh instead of fruit.

I hearn, but mebby it come from some of their own folks--but I hearn
that Californi