Josiah and Blandina didn’t enjoy it so much as I did, though Josiah, always wantin’ to embark in some new enterprise, thought he should go up in one whilst he wuz there.  He said he wanted to brag on’t to Deacon Henzy and Deacon Huffer.  And I told him that wuzn’t the right sperit to show, it wuzn’t the sperit of a true Discoverer tryin’ to solve the problems of the future through love for God and humanity.

And he said he guessed he knew what he took comfort in and what he didn’t.

Well, we rid round considerable so’s to give Molly a view of the Cascades and big buildin’s, and then we went on to the Philippines.  This is the largest single exhibit at the Fair and covers forty-seven acres of beautiful woodland and water spaces, and is the largest colonial display ever made.  I told Josiah as we walked towards it, Molly and Blandina goin’ a little ahead, “What wuz the use of travelin’ so fur to see our new possessions?”

“Yes,” sez he; “no use spendin’ so much money.”

This wuz to me one of the most interestin’ exhibits at the Fair.  And I thought it a first rate idee to show off to the world the almost limitless wealth as well as the hard problems that face Uncle Sam in his new possessions, for like a careful pa he will see that they learn how to take care of themselves before he sets ’em up in independent housekeepin’.

We went over a fine bridge, copied from one of their own into the walled city of Manila.  Here in one room you see all of its war exhibits, immense cannons, the blow guns of the Negritos; axes the Iggorote head-hunters used to cut off the heads of their enemies.  The Moro cris, the wooden guns and bamboo cannons and home-made powder used in ’em by the insurgent army with the rough machinery used in makin’ it.

Wanderin’ on you see the nita huts of the Visayans, big handsome fellows they are and pretty refined wimmen, and hear their weird melodies as they are at work making their beautiful bamboo furniture, and weaving their handsome blankets, etc.

You see on the hillside the huts of the Negritos, black little creeters.  Then you see the Iggrotes, a real village, some of the housen brought from their own land and the rest built here by them from their own materials.  It is jest as though you stepped over to the mountains of Luzon and see ’em at their simple housekeepin’.

I whispered anxiously to Josiah to keep clost watch of his own head, for though they promised to not pursue their favorite pastime till they got back home agin, yet I didn’t know what might happen, though I felt he wuzn’t in so much danger, his bald head bein’ so slippery and nothin’ to lay holt on, still I kep’ a clost watch on that dear head all the while we wuz there.

Josiah didn’t sense his own danger, but whispered, “I’m glad enough Bruno is to home.”  They will eat dogs and dance their war dances, but I spoze I couldn’t hender ’em, so didn’t try to advise ’em.  Some on ’em didn’t have clothes enough on to be decent unless you call the tatooin’ on their naked bodies, clothes.  I see Josiah looked at ’em with interest, and he wondered if common ink and diamond dyes could be used, and if Ury could handle ’em.