and colors. And oh! what a immense display of parasols; why no
parasol store in the land could begin with what I see there.

I can truly say that I thought I knew somethin' about parasols;,
havin' owned 3 different ones in the course of my life, and havin'
one covered over. I thought I knew somethin' of their nater and
habits, which is a good deal, so I had always s'posed, like a
umbrell's. But good land! I gin up that I knew them not, nor
never had.

Why anybody could learn more on 'em through one jerney down that
street, than from a hull lifetime in Jonesville. Truly travel is
very upliftin' and openin' and spreadin' out to the mind, both in
parasols and human nater.

Wall, them 2 masses over our heads wuz 2, then the one in which we
wuz a strugglin' and the one opposite to it made 4. For anybody
with any pretence to learnin' knows that twice 2 is 4. And then
in the middle of the broad street was a bigger mass of chariots
and horsemen, and carts and carriages, and great buggies and
little ones, and big loads of barrels, and big loads of ladies,
and then a load of wood, and then a load of hay, and then a pair
of young folks pretty as a picture. And then came some high big
coaches as big as our spare bedroom, and as high as the roof on
our horse barn, with six horses hitched to e'm, all runnin' over
on top with men; and wimmen, and children, and parasols, and
giggles, and ha ha's. And a man wuz up behind a soundin' out on a
trumpet, a dretful sort of a high, sweet note, not dwindlin' down
to the end as some music duz, but kinder crinklin' round and
endin' up in the air every time.