fixin' up a boat like it at home. Sez he, "Don't you think it
would be splendid to have one on the canal jest beyond the
orchard?" And sez he, "Mebby, bein' on a farm, it would be more
appropriate to have a big goose sculptured out on it; don't you
think so?"

Sez I, "Yes, it would be fur more appropriate, and a goose a
ridin' on it. But," sez I, "you will never go into that
undertakin' with my consent, Josiah Allen."

"Why," sez he, "it would be a beautiful recreation; so uneek."

But at that minute Miss Flamm gin the order to turn round and
start for the Moon, or that is how I understood her, and I
whispered to Josiah and sez, "She means to go in the buggy, for
the land's sake!"

And Josiah sez, "Wall, I haint a goin' and you haint. I won't
let you go into anythin' so dangerus. She will probably drive
into a baloon before long, and go up in that way, but jest before
she drives in, you and I will get out, Samantha, if we have to
walk back."

"I never heard of anybody goin' up in a baloon with two horses
and a buggy," sez I.

"Wall, new things are a happenin' all the time, Samantha. And I
heard a feller a talkin' about it yesterday. You know they are a
havin' the big political convention here, and he said, (he wuz a
real cute chap too,) he said, 'if the wind wasted in that