But then to think of ten millions of 'em--why, it would took Miss Isham and me more'n a week to jest count 'em, and work hard, too, all the time. Why, when I jest stretched out my eye-sight to try to take in them ten millions of globes of gorgeous beauty, my sperits sunk in me further than the Queen of Sheba's did before the glory of Solomon; I felt that minute that I would love to see Miss Sheba, and neighbor with her a spell, and talk with her about pride, and how it felt when it wuz a-fallin'. I could go ahead of her, fur, fur, and I thought I would have loved to own it up to her, and if Solomon had been present, too, I wouldn't have cared a mite--I felt humble. And I jest marched off and never said a word about gittin' a root for me or Miss Isham--I wuz fairly overcome. And still we walked round through milds and milds of solid beauty and bloom. Every beautiful posey I had ever hearn on, and them I had never hearn on wuz there, right before my dazzled eyes. The biggest crowd we see in the Horticultural Hall wuz round what you may call the humblest thing--a tree, something like old Bobbetses calf, with five legs. There wuz a fern from Japan, two separate varieties growin' together in one plant. There wuz Japanese dwarf trees one hundred years old and about as big as gooseberries. A travellin' tree from Madagascar wuz one of the most interestin' things to look at. And then there wuz a giant fern from Australia that measured thirty-two feet--the largest, so I wuz told, in Europe or America. Thirty-two feet! And there I have felt so good and even proud-sperited over my fern I took up out of our woods and brung home and sot out in Mother Smith's old blue sugar-bowl. Why, that fern wuz so large and beautiful, and attracted the envious and admirin' attention of so many Jonesvillians, that I had strong idees of takin' it to the Fair! Philury said she "hadn't a doubt of my gittin' the first prize medal on't." "Why," sez she, "it is as long as Ury's arm!" And it wuz. Miss Lum thought it would be a good thing to take it, to let Chicago and the rest of the world see what vegetation wuz nateral to Jonesville, feelin' that they would most likely have a deep interest in it. And Deacon Henzy thought "it might draw population there." And the schoolmaster thought that "it would be useful to the foreign powers to see to what height swamp culture had attained in the growth of its idigenious plants." I didn't really understand everything he said--there wuz a number more big words in his talk--but I presoom he did, and felt comforted to use 'em. Why, as I said, I had boasted that fern wuz as long as my arm. But thirty-two feet--as high as Josiah, and his father, and his grandfather, and his great-grandfather, and his great-great-grandfather, and Ury on top. Where, where wuz my boastin'? Gone, washed away utterly on the sea of wonder and or.