But Josiah continued on in that same loud axent, his liniment red as blood with anger, “If I had your darling to deal with a spell, there would be a change in him, or a funeral appinted, and the body would be ready at the time sot, I can tell you that!”

Josiah wuz fearful excited and by the side of himself.  Such voylent language is almost a perfect stranger to him, but he feared for my bones.  But I found after walkin’ ’round a spell that they wuz intact, but the pain in my stomach hung about me all day, and that night, no matter how high my standin’ wuz in the W.C.T.U., I had to take a peppermint sling.

But to resoom backward.  Machinery Buildin’ wuz an immense beautiful palace.  And when I tell you its contents are valued at eight millions you won’t expect me to disscribe the hull on ’em, no, it hain’t reasonable.  When we entered we see the first thing a engine of over fifty thousand horse-power.

Now, jest think on’t, a one horse-power hain’t to be despised.  Why, I’ve thought our old mair power when she wuz hitched onto a bob sled wuz powerful.  But jest think of fifty thousand horse-power.  Why, if they wuz hitched in front of each other with lines about the usual length, the line would reach more than a hundred miles.  Why, the very idee is staggerin’ to the intellect.

But, there it was right there before our eyes grindin’ out power to run this monster Exposition, and not complainin’ or needin’ the whip as the fifty thousand horses would, only jest knucklin’ down stiddy to the work, groanin’ considerable loud, and who blames it.  And you could see everything in the line of engines from the little half horse-power gas engine, about half the mair’s strength, about cow power, mebby, and from this up to a steam turbin of eight thousand horse-power, a rotary steam engine.  And in the Belgian exhibit wuz a gas engine of three thousand horse-power, a common sized horse can be driv through its cylinders, it takes about thirty tons of coal a day to run it.  And there wuz a big French steam engine turnin’ three hundred and thirty times a minute.  And there wuz a great hydraulic press from Germany that exerts the terrific pressure of ninety thousand pounds to the square inch—­what would it be to the yard?  My brain hain’t powerful enough to tackle the idee.

Well, there wuz every kind of machinery in the world from all the foreign countries as well as ours, and the methods of making and running them.  And we stayed there till my head seemed to turn ’round and ’round, and I told my pardner I must git out into the open air or I should begin to turn ’round and revolve in spite of me.  I spoze I did look bad, and Josiah said we would go and have lunch.  He said there wuz a caff right ’round the corner, as he pronounced cafe it sounded like a young cow.  But the idee wuz good, and after we eat quite a good meal and rested a little we started to tackle Agricultural Buildin’ which wuz writ next on my pad.