But I drawed him away and headed him up before some lovely dresses--the handsomest you ever see in your life--all trimmed with gold and pearl trimmin'. The price of that outfit wuz only twenty thousand dollars. And when I mentioned how becomin' such a dress would become me, I see by his words and mean that he had forgot the fountain. The demeanin' words that he used about my figger would keep females back from matrimony, if they knew on 'em. But I won't tell. No, indeed! And then there wuz all sorts of art work on enamel and metal, and all sorts of dazzlin' jewelry that wuz ever made or thought on, and all the silverware that wuz ever hearn or drempt of--why, jest one little service of seven pieces cost twenty thousand dollars. In Tiffany's gorgeous display wuz a case that illustrated the arts in Ireland in the fourteenth century. They said that it contained a tooth of St. Patrick. Mebbe it wuz his tooth; I can't dispute it, never havin' seen his gooms. Then there wuz a Latin book of the eighth century, containin' the four gospels; and in another wuz St. Peter's cross, they said. Mebby it wuz Peter's! And every kind of silk fabric that wuz ever made--raw silk, jest as the worm left it when she sot up as a butterfly, and jest what man has done to it after that--spinnin', weavin', dyein'--up to the time when it appears in the finest ribbon, and glossiest silk, and crapes, and gauzes, and velvets, and knit goods of every kind, and etc., and so forth. And every kind of cloth, and felt, and woollen, and carpets enough to carpet a path clear from Chicago to Jonesville for me and Josiah to go home in a triumphal procession, if they had felt like it. In front of the French section I see another statute of the Republic. She wuz a-settin' down. Poor creeter, she wuz tired; and then agin she had seen trouble--lots of it. Her left arm was a-restin' firm on a kind of a square block, with "The Rights of Man" carved on it, and half hidin' them words wuz a sword, which she also held in her left hand. The rights of Man and a sword wuz held in one hand, jest as they always have been. But, poor creeter! her right arm wuz gone--her good right hand wuz nowhere to be seen. I don't like to talk too glib about the judgments of Providence. The bad boys don't always git drownded when they go fishin' Sundays--they often git home with long strings of trout, and lick the good boys on their way home from Sunday-school. Such is real life, too oft. But I couldn't help sayin' to Josiah-- "Mebby if they had put onto that little monument she holds, 'The Rights of Man and Woman'--mebby she wouldn't had her arm took off." But anyway, judgment or not, anybody could see with one eye how one-sided, and onhandy, and cramped, and maimed, and everything a Republic is who has the use of only one of her arms. Them that run could read the great lesson-- "Male and female created He them."