The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-11-23
which several people near us laughed.


beat me to think they would want to ?
ook at distant objects and never notice I
What was near 'em. mentioned this to Z
. pleasant lookin' young man near us,
md he laughed and said they was Eng I
ishmen, and that Engli.hman would
look through a opery-glass to see how to
nntie his shoe-string.
LA me" says /, what powerful bad
eyesight they must have wonder
that Queen Victory don't have their eyes
tended to-
lie said they'd better use Colonel Sell
ler's eye.water, which spose is some
new kind. Speakin' of the English puts
me in mind Of one thing. II / was
country and had got sich lickin from
another one as England did from the |
United States, wouldn't send any ilnery |
over to help that country make a big |
show about havin' whipped me be- |
lieve in havin some spunk.
About twelve o'clock Reuben said ne
was hungry and we looked around to
find somethin' to eat. | told him that l
insidered it a great bother to have to
stop to eat when there was so many nice
things to look at III said he thought il
come Fright handy to swaller things
sometimes, so we went to kind OF a
counter in one side OF the buildin' and
asked for somethin' to eat There was
an awful crowdin' and pushin' that | was
kinder disgusted with human natur gen
orally, for ! couldn't help thinkin' they
acted more like pigs than human bein's.
After waitin about half hour we got
some black lookin coffee and some pie.
The girls that waited on US was the sas-
siest | ever sot eyes on. | felt like Id
/ like to give EN- a sound shakin'. spose
they'd never had persition of sich i'm
portance aforc and wanted TO make big
spread over it. By the way was dread.
fully deceived that day after dinner, I'm
hardly ever taken in about anything as
you know, but a body can't expect to
know all the late improvements. We
passed big glass and thought Id stop
and see il my bonnet was on straight.
when ! was so astonished that thought
I'd sink through the floor, and / made
Reuben look too. We was the fattest
couple you ever saw Did you ever says
!, ] didn't notice that was so neshy nt
the tavern this mornin'. That cup OF
coffee and little stingy piece of pie must
a had powerful effect on US The folks
Iaf hnrna I - IL
my eyes off the lookin' glass all the time
was sayin' that, and Reuben laughed
maxim his face look fatter than ever
Right beside that glass there was another
one and we looked in that. We was the
lantern; ;jawedest leanest lookin' people
We didn't look as il we'd had anything
to eat for six months, and had been spun
( out like a roll Of wool in a spinning
| wheel. l locked at Reuben and h'
looked at me.
why you look material opt Of IL,
glass" says /.
80 do you" says he, and we knoweC
that the glasses was made that way
, purpose. IL was doctor Id take ths
fat glass around with me to kinder en-
[ courage my patients.
When we was in the English impari
ment we passed place where they ha'
! some little bedrooms fixed up. On
. they called some Queens bed room,
, couldnt understand her name. 1T can
i. be Queen Victory's" says !. "for she eoul,
l. 4 IL L., Lms
q wanted to look at the things a littl
closer and / climbed over the railin'
I and sot down on the bed, jist as was eS
. aminin' the quilt perliceman com
. along and you'd ought to seen him tax
I me out o there.
o "You needn't be so pertiekler abou
!. your little old bed, says /, "taint half a
nice as the one sleep in at home"
We commenced on the United State
impairment the next day. I'd been
wantin' to buy a cupboard Of some kim
, for some time and thought I'd ask tn
i, price Of one ! saw there. IL was al
carved up and was mighty fancy.
sposed it'd be about thirty-fiye dollars
a but missed my guess, as the man said it,
q been sold for nine thousand dollars. W
thought we'd leave the Main Buildn' 70
, a while and 90 over to where they KEEP
the picters, I'm powerful fond Of picters
On the outside of the Gallery there
two big horses with wings. "lf that's
fair sample Of what they've got there
I'm not goin' any furder,' says /, 80
every body with any gumption knows
E amt material for horses to have wing'
though | don't know but what they'd b
: an improvement on some they hav
hitehed to these street cars, to make en-
:, 90 faster" One Of the first things / nc
ticed after we got inside was Georg
Washington a ridin' the American eagle
! 81 don't think anything at all OF that,
says !, 1T amt material in the first plac
for they've made him a heap bigger thai
life. In the second place Mr.. Washing
ton was a man Of more dignitude than 4
> be playin sich schoolboy tricks as that
I He may have done it though to try t
match Mr. Franklin when he was ou
Ayin' his kite" Well, s'pose the bes
l OF men will act like boys sometimes
| don't care much for marble statute
+ so didn't pay much attention to what
saw there They are too pale to sui! me
not enough life in EN-. fairly shudder
ed to see EN- a standin' around like 5,
many ghosts.
Mother" says Reuben, I'm bet IL
dream Of these pale folks a standin
around my bed for weeks to come"
) 81 hope you won't always dream abou
EN- on the sleepin' car goin home, say
/, specially if that same darkey's aboard
) / wouldn't give much for your life j