Why, any one here would have 60 or 70 emotions a minute right along—­a-seein’ these, and a-meditatin’ on the wonders of the deep.

And then there wuz the rainbow fish, which is found both on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts—­it has all the colors the rainbow ever had, and more too.

And then to see our own magnificent water-lilies a-floatin’ on top of the water, and then to see ’em down under the water, with fishes a-floatin’ all amongst ’em—­oh, what a sight! what a sight it wuz!

Outside of the buildin’, when at last we did tear ourselves away from that seen of enchantment, and went outside, I upheld by my motive to see everything I could, and Josiah by the idee that we would step into a restaurant that wuzn’t fur away.

When outside we see a lot of ponds all illustratin’ the best way of pond culture, and all sorts of aquatic plants.

Wall, at Josiah’s request, we went to the nighest place and had a cup of tea and a good little lunch.

And then we went back to see the fish-hooks and things that is in the west buildin’ of the group.

Josiah said mebby he could git his eye on some new kind of a fish-hook.  He said he’d love to go beyend Deacon Henzy and Sime Yerden if he could—­they boasted so over their tackle.

And truly I should have thought he might have gone ahead of anything, or anybody, if he could have carried ’em home.  There wuz everything that could be thought on, or that ever wuz seen in the form of fishin’ apparatus—­every kind of hook, and spear, and rod, and queer-lookin’ baskets and pots, and tackle to catch eels and lobsters, and then there wuz models of fishin’ boats and vessels, and everything else under the sun that any fisherman ever sot eyes on, from Josiah back to the Postles, and from the Postles down to any fishin’ club in 1893.

Why, if you’ll believe it—­and I d’no as I would blame you if you wouldn’t, it bein’ a fish story, as it were—­but we did see some fish-hooks from Pompeii that had been buried 2000 years, and come out fish-hooks after all—­a good deal like them Josiah uses in Jonesville creek.

And speakin’ of old things, we see some fishes that day—­the oldest in the world; they come from Colorado—­dug out of the rocks of ages ago; they wuz covered with bone instead of scales, which showed that they had had a pretty hard time on’t.

[Illustration:  They wuz covered with bone instead of scales.]

And then there wuz a big collection of nets made by the Indians from seal sinew, seal-skin braided, roots of willow tree, and whalebone.

Of these last it took four men three weeks to make one, and two of these wuz gin in exchange for a jug of molasses to make rum with.

A shame and a disgrace!  No savage would have cheated so—­no, it takes a white man to do that.

And we see artificial flies so nateral that a spider would go to weavin’ a net to catch it.