And then he boasted about the Board of Trade, and said its tower wuz 300 feet high. And, sez he, "While folks all over the world are prayin' for their daily bread, the men inside that building was deciding whether they could get it or not." And after he talked about everything else connected with Chicago, and hauled up figgers and heaped 'em up in front of me till my brain reeled, and my mind tottered back, and tried to lean onto old Rugers' Rithmatick--and couldn't, he wuz so totally inadequate to the circumstances--he mentioned "that they had 6000 saloons in Chicago, and made twenty-one million barrels of beer in a year." "Wall," sez I, a-turnin' round in the buggy, "my brain has been made a wreck by the figgers you have brung up and throwed at me about the noble, progressive doin's of Chicago, and," sez I firmly, "I wuz willin' to have it, for I respect and honor the people who could do such wonders, and keepon a-doin' 'em, to the admiration of the world. But," sez I, "my brain _shall not_ totter under none of your beer and whiskey statisticks." And as I spoke I put my hand to my fore-top, and I looked quite bad, and truly I felt so. He glanced at me, and see that I wuz not in a situation to be trifled with. And as we wuz jest approachin' the station where we wuz to be left, he ceased his remarks, and held his horse in. He helped me to alight, and I thanked him for his kindness, and acted as polite as a person could whose brain lay a wreck in the upper part of her head. The last word Mr. Bolster said to us wuz, as he gathered up the reins, sez he: "Thirty-six lines of cars come to and leave Chicago, which, with its immense shipping facilities, makes it the--" But the cars tooted jest then, and I didn't hear his last words, and I wuz glad on't, as I say, I had thanked him before. But good land! he would have carried two giraffes or camels willin'ly if he could have got 'em into his buggy, and sot 'em up by him on the seat, and could have boasted to 'em understandin'ly about Chicago. But I guess he is well-meanin'. CHAPTER X. Wall, after he left us we boarded some cars, and found ourselves, with the inhabitants of several States, I should judge, borne onwards towards the White City. And anon, or about that time, we found ourselves at a depot, where wuz the entire census of several other States, and Territories. There we wuz right in front of the Gole, and I don't believe there wuz a better-lookin' Gole sence the world begun. The minute we left the cars we found ourselves between two lines of wild-lookin' and actin' men, a-tryin' to sell us things we hadn't no need on. What did I want with a cane? or Josiah with a little creepin' beetle? And what did I want with galluses? They didn't use no judgment, and their yellin's wuz fearful; whatever else they had, they didn't have consumption, I don't believe.