"mars he, we can't 'ford all dem vials--a king couldn't. we
him if we didn't come pretty quick. he was very indignant,
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mister and just used their plain names without any handle,
sun done it?"
"to go back west is the shortest way, you see. it's only
a ball--just a round ball, of a dull color, with shiny
thousand million people that seen the sun move from one side
minute--it's perfectly plain. don't we fly through the air?"
his voice was so weak, and the wind roared so, i couldn't
nights i ever see. the moon made it just like daylight, only
the dead animals. they was plucky creturs; they would tackle
you set your compass and sail west as straight as a dart,
sickening way; for it is uncomfortable to see things sliding
spinning along under the coach, and his head and shoulders
for thousands of years, and nobody can't find out what they
along, and everybody just petrified to see it; and when they
thick fringe of ships around one edge; and we wondered if it
so then we shoved for home, and not feeling very gay,
either. both of us begged he to turn off and go some other
about to watch and see that none of the animals come
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and when jim got so he could believe it was the land of
"he, do you think that would be honest?"
but i was aggravated about that welkin. i wanted to know. i
beefsteak to the great sahara, you want to be particular and
coming on the lope from every direction, and pretty soon
with a king in it, four thousand years old. i said to
in and went to pieces. he he didn't know what to do. the
that's got anything to do with their being similar or
"my lan', mars he, i never knowed dey was so much to de
and on top of that the circus, and on top of that the
a look, and it was an hour fast too. that puzzled him.
buried up to the chin in sand, and only our heads out and
and took out after them. we went skimming along a quarter of
and the professor mooning over a chart on his little table,
"who tole him he could?"
away off now we see a little hill, a-standing up just on the
well, as i was saying, it got so he couldn't stand it any
heard it, and whirled and fetched a shriek of joy, and made
sunday; they keep friday and break the sabbath. you have to
getting anything out. i took only just a glimpse, and was hmjn-c8KATn2tnnKivwlKJJ
travelers is, we was right down friendly and sociable, and
till he knowed where the professor was.
it was strange and unnatural to see lion eat lion, and we
glimpses of them struggling together. there must 'a' been
different; but i said it then and i stand to it now--it was
he was right and we was wrong, and all we was after was to
was saying, and was having a most noble good lazy time,
where you go into the tunnel, and went in with some arabs
the great sahara down with her edge on the pacific, she
time there was music. a lot of other animals come to dinner;
but he said he had read about railroads in england going
he looked scornful, the way he's always done when he was
unsimilar, it's the principle involved; and the principle is
gladder and gladder we was that we run across them. we had
springing up in the air at the ladder, and only missing it
that just swelled him up fit to bust. you see he laid over
and the new ones, and said it was out of the arabian nights,
east. we don't know how long that's been going on, either."
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we left st. louis it was four in the afternoon by my watch
this desert yet. the united states is a pretty big country,
breeze, the loveliest sight that ever was. and all about it
"shucks!" i says. "but what does it mean?--that's the
difference when you are hungry; and when you ain't it ain't
"she's right for st. louis, but she's an hour wrong for
losing ground all the time; and a railroad train doing the
steak, fried fish, and hot corn-pone. i don't want nothing
but i couldn't see no argument about that, and neither could
de worl' now?"
but just one mud brick. now a person wouldn't ever believe
couldn't bear the sight of it, it made me sick to look at
going to start for philadelphia--not a minute to lose if he
you call that?"
we hadn't any clothes on, anyway. clothes is well enough in
"done!" says the darky.
how he ever found that place was too many for me. we passed
"that'll make her eyes bulge out and the tears come," he
then he says:
that word kinder bricked us up for a minute. then jim hmjn-c8KATn2tnnKivwlKJJ
hadn't been for old nat parsons, which was postmaster, and
that is, she was right as to the rest of the world, but she
kept watching with the glasses, like columbus discovering
git over it, and especially people's saying his ship was
till we've carted this whole desert over there and sold it
to be no core. but i notice they always git come up with;
he thought it over, and said we must scour around and see if
time was slipping away, and him getting older and older, and
no satisfaction to eat, anyway, and so a little grit in the
what-not in a vial with a label on it for a curiosity. all
attitudes and positions he could study up, but standing on
what i wanted to see was a dervish, because i was interested
nothing at all.
remember this, and you will lose by it."
"you'll see that they'll have to apologize for insulting the
case here ain't no discrimination of his, it's man's. the
prairie fire, but it never made any difference, we couldn't
in, and says:
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heaven, en dat's a foreign country. now, den! do dey put a
threads in your coat-sleeve, and see a whole wide desert of
to their ways, the better and better we liked them, and the
gwyne to bust us, sho'."
"my lan', ef he ain't got him ag'in! he's landed him high en
girl, but it was different with this last caravan. we was
but jim was asleep. he looked kind of ashamed, because you
hain't dat so, he?"
piece, and then went in a boat another piece, and then more
then the storm thinned, and we see that monstrous wall go
"don't you own these camels?"
over the united states and peddle them out at ten cents
warn't nothing but just a speck in the desert, and i tell
now?--yes, and your bird, and your railroad, and your
tell 'bout it." then he begun to shiver and turn gray, and
dates, because he said they answered the description in the
his horse was put up, and he didn't know what to do. but