She wuz a leanin' on the stun railin' that fences in the trout
pond. She wuz evidently a lookin' down pensively at the shinin'
dartin' figures of the trout, a movin' round down in the cool
waters.

I wuzn't nigh enough to 'em to see really how her companion
looked, but even at that distance I recognized a certain air and
atmosphere a surroundin' Ardelia that I knew meant poetry.

And Josiah recognized it too, and he sez to me, "We may as well go
round the hill and out to the road that way," sez he, (a pointin'
to the way furthest from Ardelia) "and we may as well be a goin'."

That man abhors poetry.

Wall, we wandered down into the high way and havin' most the hull
afternoon before us, we kinder sauntered round amongst the stores
that wuz pretty nigh to where we wuz. There is some likely good
lookin' stores kep' by the natives, as they call the stiddy
dwellers in Saratoga. Good lookin' respectable stores full of
comfort and consolation, for the outer or inner man or woman. (I
speak it in a mortal sense).

But with the hundred thousand summer dwellers, who flock here with
the summer birds, and go out before the swallers go south, there
comes lots of summer stores, and summer shops, and picture
studios, etc., etc. Like big summer bird's-nests, all full and a
runnin' over with summer wealth, to be blowed down by the autumn
winds. These shops are full of everything elegant and beautiful
and useful. The most gorgeous vases and plaks and chiner ware of