Why, the Bible is full of fishin' and fisherman, clear back to Jonah; and how took up he wuz with a fish, and how full the fish wuz of him! Fishin' wuz the first industry in the New World. When our Forefathers landed on Plymouth Rock they found the harbor shaped some like a fish-hook, and then consequently they went to fishin'. Who got Washington and his army over the Delaware River that bitter cold night in 1777, when the fate of our country wuz a-hangin' over that sea of broken ice--ruin on this side, and possible success on the other, but the impassable gulf of bitter cold water and the crashing masses of ice between--who got 'em acrost? Fisherman. Our country has always been noted in its interest in fishin'. Why, at the Internatial Exhibition at Berlin in 1880, America won the first prize given by the Emperor for its display. And I knew when it done so well on a foreign shore, it wuzn't goin' to make any failure of itself here under its own line, and fish tree, so to speak. Wall, as I said, Josiah expressed a willingness to go, and consequently and subsequently we went. Wall, we found it wuz a group of buildin's on a beautiful island--in the northern part of the lagoon, joinin' the improved part of Jackson Park. There wuz three on em' in number. The middle one wuz a long buildin' with a high dome, and some towers in the centre on't, and the arches and the pillows wuz all ornamented off with figgers of fishes, and crabs, and lobsters, and all sorts of water growth. It looked uneek, and first-rate, too. And when I say it wuz a long buildin', I don't want it understood that I mean length as we call it in Jonesville, but Chicago length--or rather Chicago Jackson Park length, which is fur longer than jest plain Chicago largeness. In the centre of the big buildin' is a fish-pond all ornamented with rock work, and all sorts of aquatic plants. And then all joined on to the main buildin', at each end and connected with it by carved arches, handsome as arches wuz ever made in the world, and trimmed off in the uneek way I've mentioned prior to and beforehand, wuz two other buildin's, each one on 'em 135 feet long. The buildin' to the east is the aquarum, or live fish exhibit, and that to the west is to show off the anglin' exhibit. They wuz round and kinder double-breasted lookin' on both sides. The shape on 'em is called pollygon--probable named after the man's wife that built it. It had a good many sides to it--mebby Polly had to her. I know wimmen are falsely called seven-sided lots of times.