CHAPTER XLVII

. Uncle Remus.--The Children Disappointed.--We Read Aloud.

--Mr. Cable and Jean au Poquelin.--Involuntary Trespass.--The Gilded Age.--An Impossible Combination.--The Owner Materializes and Protests.

## CHAPTER XLVIII . Tight Curls and Springy Steps.--Steam-plows.--“No. I.”

Sugar.--A Frankenstein Laugh.--Spiritual Postage.--A Place where there are no Butchers or Plumbers.--Idiotic Spasms.

## CHAPTER XLIX . Pilot-Farmers.--Working on Shares.--Consequences.--Men who

Stick to their Posts.--He saw what he would do.--A Day after the Fair.

## CHAPTER L . A Patriarch.--Leaves from a Diary.--A Tongue-stopper.--The

Ancient Mariner.--Pilloried in Print.--Petrified Truth.

## CHAPTER LI . A Fresh “Cub” at the Wheel.--A Valley Storm.--Some Remarks

on Construction.--Sock and Buskin.--The Man who never played Hamlet.--I got Thirsty.--Sunday Statistics.

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