riz up in his mind, that it
wuz doubtful if he ever would be settled down agin, and act in a way
becomin' to a grandfather and a Deacon in the M.E. meetin'-house.

And it wuz a excitin' time, very, and the fightin' and quarrelin'
between the rival cities wuz perilous in the extreme.

It would have skairt Christopher, I'll bet, if he could have seen it,
and he would have said that he would most ruther not be celebrated than
to seen it go on.

Why, New York and Chicago most come to hands and blows about it, and St.
Louis wuz jest a-follerin' them other cities up tight, a-worryin' 'em,
and a-naggin', and a sort o' barkin' at their heels, as it wuz, bound
she would have it.

They couldn't all on 'em have it. Christopher couldn't be in three
places at one time and simultanous, no matter how much calculation he
had about him. No, that wuz impossible. He had to be in one place. And
they fit, and they fit, and they fit, till I got tired of the very name
of the World's Fair, and Josiah got almost ravin' destracted.

It seemed to me, and so I told Josiah, that New York wuz a more proper
place for it, bein' as it wuz clost to the ocean, so many foreigners
would float over here, them and their things that they wanted to show to
the Fair.

It would almost seem as if they would be tired enough when they got
here, to not want to disemmark themselves and their truck, and then
imegiatly embark agin on a periongor or wagon, or car, or sunthin, and
go a-trailin' off thousands of milds further. And then go through it all
agin disembarkin' and unloadin' their truck, and themselves.

Howsumever, I spozed if they sot out for the Fair from Africa, or
Hindoostan, or Asia, I spozed they would keep on till they got there, if
they had to go the hull length of the Misisippi River, and travelled in
more'n forty different conveniences, etc., etc. But it didn't seem so
handy nor nigh.

But Chicago is dretful worrysome and active, jest like all children who
have growed fast, and kinder outgrowed their clothes and family
goverment.

She is dretful forward for one of her years, and she knows it. She knows
she is smart, and she is bound to have her own way if there is any
possible way of gittin' it.

And she had jest put her foot right down, that have that Fair she would.
And like as not if she hadn't got it she would have throwed herself and
kicked. I shouldn't wonder a mite if she had.

But she jest clawed right in, and tore round and act