then was ready to render such service to The Cause and to
George as the day might demand. Thus I rode to Lincoln
or to Foxcroft to order supplies; I took my gun and lay
in wait on Chairback for a bear; I transferred to the
hewn lumber the angles or bevels from the careful
drawings: as best I could, I filled an apostle's part,
and became all things to all these men around me. Happy
those days!--and thus the dam was built; in such Arcadian
simplicity was reared the mighty wheel; thus grew on each
side the towers which were to support the flies; and
thus, to our delight not unmixed with wonder, at last we
saw those mighty flies begin to turn. Not in one day,
nor in ten; but in a year or two of happy life,--full of
the joy of joys,--the "joy of eventful living."

Yet, for all this, $162,000 was not $197,000, far
less was it $250,000; and but for Jeff. Davis and his
crew the BRICK MOON would not have been born.

But at last Jeff. Davis was ready. "My preparations
being completed," wrote General Beauregard, "I opened
fire on Fort Sumter." Little did he know it,--but in
that explosion the BRICK MOON also was lifted into the
sky!

Little did we know it, when, four weeks after, George
came up from the settlements, all excited with the
news! The wheels had been turning now for four days,
faster of course and faster. George had gone down for
money to pay off the men, and he brought us up the news