And I spozed she had brung it up to kinder attract Josiah Allen; but, good land! if his morals hadn't been like iron for solidity, I knew that for her to try to flirt wuz like a old hen to try to bite; they don't have no teeth, hens don't, even when they are young, and they won't be likely to have any when they are fifty or sixty years old. So I looked on with composure, and didn't take no notice of her flirtacious ways, and I consented to her propisition, and Josiah did too. That man hadn't been riz up by his emotions as I had, by the majesty and glory of the scene--no, he felt pretty chipper; and Miss Plank, after she quieted down a little, and ceased talkin' about her girlish days, she could think, even in that rapt hour, of pancakes; for she mentioned, when I spoke of how high the waters of the fountain riz up, "Yes," sez she-- "Speakin' of risin', I left some pancakes a-risin' before I left home;" and she wondered if the cook would tend to 'em. Pancakes! in such a time as this. And then Josiah proposed to go and see the live stock, and Miss Plank said dreamily that she would like to go to a certain restaurant at the fur end of the grounds to see the cookin' of a certain chef; she had heard it went ahead of anything in America. "Chef"--I didn't want to act green, but I did wonder what "chef" wuz. I thought mebby it wuz chaff she meant, and I spozed they had got up some new way to cook chaff. I would liked to seen it and tasted of it, but Duty begened to me, and I followed her blindly, and I sez, as I planted my umbrell firm down on the ground, sez I-- "Here I take my stand; I don't often stand out and try to have my way--" Here Josiah gin a deep groan out to one side, but he no need to--I spoke truth, or pretty near the truth, anyway. Sez I, "Here I take my stand!" and I brung down my good cotton umbrell agin firmly, as if to punctuate my remarks, and add weight to it, and I wuz so earnest that before I knew it I fell into a fervid eloquence--catched from my old revolutionary 4 fathers, I spoze--and, sez I-- "I care not what course others may take--" "But," sez Miss Plank, "we will hang together in such a crowd as this." "Yes," sez Josiah; "you mustn't go wanderin' off by yourself, Samantha; it hain't safe." I wuz brung down some, but I kep on with considerable eloquence, though it wuz kinder drizzlin' away onbeknown to me, such is the power of environment. Sez I, "I care not what course others may take, I will go first to the place my proud heart has dwelt on ever sence the Fair wuz opened-- "I will go first to the Woman's Buildin', home of my sect, and my proud ambition and love." Miss Plank demurred, and said "that it wuz some distance off;" but I held firm--Josiah see that I wuz firm--and he finally gin in quite graciously, and, sez he--