And sez I, as I looked round me once more, some as Moses did on Pisga's height, "and viewed the landscape o'er"-- Sez I, "I _must_ thank the head one here--I _must_ thank Director-General Davis in my own name, and in the name of Jonesville, and the world, for gittin' up this incomparable spectacle, the like of which will never be seen agin by livin' eyes." And if you'll believe it, I hadn't hardly finished speakin' when who should come towards us but General Davis himself. I knew him in a minute, for his picter had been printed in papers as many as two or three times since the Fair begun--it wuz a real good-lookin' face, anyway, in a paper or out of it. And I gathered up the folds of my cotton umbrell more gracefully in my left hand, and kinder shook out the drapery of my alpaca skirt, and wuz jest advancin' to accost him, when Josiah laid holt of my arm and whispered in a sharp axent-- "I won't have it. You hain't a-goin' to stop and visit with that man." I faced him with dignity and with some madness in my liniment, and sez I, "Why?" Sez he, "Do you ask why?" "Yes," sez I, with that same noble, riz-up look on my eyebrow--"why?" "Wall," sez he, a-lookin' kinder meachin', "I want sunthin' to eat, and you'd probable talk a hour with him by the way you've praised up his doin's here." By this time General Davis wuz fur away. And I sithed, when I thought on't, what he'd lost by not receivin' my eloquent and heartfelt thanks, and what I'd lost in not givin' 'em. I d'no as Josiah was jealous--mebby he wuzn't. But General Davis is considerable handsome, and Josiah can't bear to have me praise up any man, livin' or dead. Sometimes I have almost mistrusted that he didn't like to have me praise up St. Paul too much, or David, or Job--or he don't seem to care so much about Job. But, as I say, mebby it wuzn't jealousy--his appetite is good; mebby it was hunger. CHAPTER XIX. Wall, this mornin', on our way to the grounds, I sez to Josiah-- "There is one thing that I want you to do the first thing to-day, and that is for you to see that good creeter, Senator Palmer." Sez I, "I jest happened to read this mornin' how he's takin' up a subscription to help the Duke of Veragua, and we must see him and help the cause along." Sez I, "I can't bear to think of Columbuses folks a-sufferin' for things." Sez Josiah, "Let Columbuses folks nip in and work jest as I do, and they'll git along." "They hain't been brung up to it," sez I; "I don't spoze he ever ploughed a acre of land in his life, or sheared a sheep. And I don't spoze she knows what it is to pick a goose, or do a two weeks' washin'." I'm sorry for 'em as I can be. And to think that that villain of a Manager should have run away with that money while they wuz over here a-helpin' their forefathers birthday! Sez I, "It makes me feel like death." "It makes me feel," sez Josiah gloomily, "that no knowin' but the Old Harry will git into Ury while we are away."