Samantha at the World's Fair

Project Gutenberg's Samantha at the World's Fair, by Marietta Holley This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Samantha at the World's Fair Author: Marietta Holley Illustrator: Baron C. De Grimm Release Date: April 1, 2006 [EBook #18091] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SAMANTHA AT THE WORLD'S FAIR *** Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Paul Ereaut and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The minute we passed the gate we wuz overwhelmed with the onspeakable aspect of the buildin's--See page 226." SAMANTHA AT THE WORLD'S FAIR BY JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE (MARIETTA HOLLEY) ILLUSTRATED BY BARON C. DE GRIMM PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES New-York FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY LONDON AND TORONTO 1893 Copyright, 1893, by the FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY. [Registered at Stationer's Hall, London, England.] TO Columbia— WHO HAS JEST SAILED OUT AND DISCOVERED WOMAN. AND TO THE SECT DISCOVERED— THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED . PREFACE. It wuz a beautiful evenin' in Jonesville, and the World. The Earth wuz a-settin' peaceful and serene under the glowin' light of a full moon and some stars, and I sot jest as peaceful and calm under the meller light of our hangin' lamp and the blue radiance of my companion's two orbs.