Part on’t is a sort of a harbor for their air-ships to light in.  They say they need a still harbor away from boisterous winds jest as much as water ships do.  This is the first Air-Ship harbor ever built.  Josiah said it wuz the humbliest buildin’ on the Fair ground, and it wuzn’t a beauty so fur as architecture goes.

But I sez, “Handsome is as handsome duz!  I don’t spoze,” sez I, “that Noah’s Ark wuz a beauty, but he started a new world with it, and I believe this buildin’ holds the great hope and promise of the future in the way of transportation, and it looks good to me.”

It stands between Physical Culture Hall and the Hall of Lady Managers.  I wuz glad it wuz where wimmen could keep an eye on ’em and keep ’em from bein’ run on.  In one corner on’t is two stalls, jest as they have horse stalls in barns, but these stalls are one hundred and eighty feet long and forty feet wide.  There wuz most ninety entries for the contest.  If they make a speed of twenty milds an hour they git a prize of one hundred thousand.  I would like to know what Sister Bobbett would think of that.

Josiah said he believed they wuz dangerous, but the head of this company told me with his own mouth that he had traveled over fifteen States in air-ships and had never been hurt or even skairt, and I told Josiah that wuz more than he could say of our wheel-barrow that had never been out of Jonesville.  Josiah went out one dark night to shet the barn door and fell over it, and it rared up on him and throwed him; he wuz skairt to death thinkin’ it wuz a burglar who wuz tryin’ to fight him.

I had to take the lantern and go out and rescue him, and I hain’t goin’ to tell how he kicked that wheel-barrow when he re_cog_nized it, and the language he hurled at it.  It wuz onbecomin’ a deacon, and I told him so.

Next to the Hall of Electricity, the great onseen Wizard that sways the world, this Hall of Air-Ships wuz interestin’ to me, for it is the transportation of the future.  Baby eyes blinkin’ now at the canopys of their cribs will look up and see the blue sky above ’em cleft by the white wings of great ships of the air sailin’ to and fro with no treacherous rocks to dash aginst, no forests to subdue or mountains to tunnel, no roads to break, to and fro, back and forth shining white aginst the crimson sunset, aginst the rosy dawn, and the cloudless noon.  Oh, what a sight for the eyes that will behold ’em!  I wish I could stand it till then, but most probable I can’t, and I wouldn’t want to anyway if Josiah couldn’t be there to see ’em with me; and his health hain’t what it wuz, his liver is bad.  But I think sometimes that Josiah and I may look on and behold this glorious sight from some cloudy terrace of the Better Country; I’d love to if we could.  But ’tennyrate it will be seen by them that live long enough.

I took solid comfort and lots and lots of it wandering round seeing these immense Travelers of the Sky and askin’ questions and lookin’ forward towards the glories that is to be.