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Excerpt from Uncle Jeremiah: And His Neighbors at the St. Louis Exposition
World's fairs are now so solemnly immense that to see them seems to be an enormous task. The throngs move on and on through the vast and varied spectacle of wonders as though they were viewing the speechless mysteries of Aladdin o-r tramping along subterranean aisles in the catacombs of Rome. It is the American spirit of getting one's money's worth. We spend 50 cents a day to see a 000 show and we might' miss something if we laugh. There is no time or place for merriment or rest. We are lost in the mountains of miracles wherein the world's side-shows of Midway and Pike become a serious study in our laborious enterprise of seeing it all. Such solemnity might reduce the nervous to tears if they were not too tired to weep. On that account the adventures of Uncle Jere miah and his neighbors are made public so that the laboring visitors may at least see the humor in themselves, if not in the show, and thereby look up and be glad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
