Money and fish and wisdom and all
sorts of patented things and garden seeds and tariffs and resolutions and
treaties and laws of every shape and size, good ones and queer ones and
reputations and rates and rebates, etc., etc. But it would devour too much
time to even name over all that is made and onmade there, even if I knowed
by name the innumerable things that are flowin' constant out of that great
reservoir of the Nation, with its vast crowd of law-makers settin' on the
lid, regulatin' its flow and spreadin' it abroad over the country, thick
and thin.
But on I went past the Capitol, the handsomest buildin' on the Globe,
standin' in its own Eden of beauty. By the Public Library as long as from
our house to Grout Hozleton's, and I guess longer, and every foot on't more
beautifler ornamented than tongue can tell. But I didn't dally tryin' to
pace off the size on't, though it wuz enormous, for the thought of what I
wuz carryin' bore me on almost regardless of my matchless surroundin's and
the twinges of rumatiz.
And anon I arrived at the White House, where my hopes and the hopes of
my sect and Serepta Pester wuz sot. I will pass over my efforts to git
into the Presence, merely sayin' that they were arjous and extreme, and I
wouldn't probably have got in at all had not the Presence appeared with a
hat on jest goin' out for a walk, and see me as I wuz strivin' with the
emissary for entrance.
Pages:
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49