The steembote skufflin along the buzzum uv the P'tomuck like a snaik dockter, I stud and lookt at Washintun, and lookt at it, and lookt at it. Billy,. it shines in the distans uv a wintry evenin with a strange sort uv look. Thar it is, the grate big sitty stretcht out upon the groun, with splendid bildinsand steeples and monyumints, lookin like a picktcher, which you know is reel; and how all uv it got thar, you don't know; and who's thar, and what's goin to bekum uv you thar, you don't know; and you feel sorry for yourself, home is so fur away, tho you left it like yistiddy. How it is with uther peepul, I can't say; but with me goin into a big sitty is atendid with a sense uv fear and danger, which is vague, and all the worse for bein so. fine, but the sky over the dark and distrest. But the evrywhar is sad, evin in the mornin at sun up, ef you look at it good. I don't understand it.

The housis look mitey

sitty and back uv it is bottim part uv the sky

Seein Washintun in the ginrul, you don't know what you see, unless thar is somebody thar to tell yew. I were too much ockyupied lookin, I didn't ass no questuns. What most ingaged my atenshun. wuz the marvel bildins, and a thing that when I cum to find it out were anuther Washintun monyumint, the same as that in Richmun, bilt in memory uv Ginrul Washintun, only this wun is a heep higher and diffrintly shapt. A tremenjus tall, squar post uv white rock, this wun is, with the frame uv a meat hous on top uv it. It sits on the ruver bank, and a lonesomer, outlandisher thing you can't imagine. It

taint finisht yit by a long shot. They tell me its to be 600 feet high, and were risin rapidly untwell the No-Nuthins got hold uv it and stopt it, sense which nobody goes anear it, and it stans thar like the pizen. tree we read uv in jografy, which peepul are afeard to breethe the ar in the naborhood uv it. I declar pentedly, it ar a shame for the Amerrykin peepul to do in this way.

Next to the desertid monyumint, my mine wuz drawd to the Capitul-Capitul uv the hole United States; a supub eddyfiss, which I wont discribe at this tiem. The reesin why I don't it aint finisht. In fac, Billy, nuthin aint finisht in this toun, ixcept it is roskallity, which it is the only thing thar is no need uv eny futher apropriashuns for the ixtenshin uv.

When the bote recht the warf (warf is sum bodes nailed doun on sum stobs stuck in the bottum uv the ruver, running out from the bank, whar you stop and hitch the bote and git off at,) thar insude another seen, as the Him Book says, uv kunfewshun and creecher cumplaint, with hax, and hac-drivers holrin, and homny busses and peepul gittin off, sumthin like at the deep O in Richmun, but not so bad and terryfine to a body. Now I didn't kno nuthin bout Washintun, and didn't kno war to go to git to stay all nite, so I stretcht my ear and skun my eye, and nuvur let on but what I were intily soun on the goos, all rite, up side up, good aag.

A fello goin by sais to anuther fello, he sais: "D'ew you recken he'll be at Broun's?"

The uther fello sais:

"Well, I dunno; I reckin so; Broun's is a Suthun hous, you kno."

And they went on, and I went rite arfter, gittin into Broun's hominybus, for I liked the name uv Broun, it soundid so natchrul. But I didn't ixpeck thar wuz a man uv that commun naim in a big sitty like Washintun. It jes shows how fur from the fax uv the kais a man's idees is which spens his dais at hoam, sein only his akewaintunsis. Peepul is peepul, Billy, everywhar, and they aint much bigger nor eny better one plais than anuther; ef enything, they are wusser and littler.

Don't you think I had unother fuss about my chex (a chek ar a roun, or squar, or dimunt shapt peece uv mettil, puter sumtimes, but ginyrully brass-a brass reseat the trunk man gives you fur yo' trunx when you git in the car, which you must give it back to him again befo you kin git you trunx,) arfter all my sufrin in Richmun? Its the truth, Billy, ef uver I tole it; und it cum, is I sed befo, uv startin on Fridy. I orto give up my chex to a man on the steemebote, which clex um. I wont narrate the botherashun uv it all; but it perswadid me more and more uv the vally uv that that wuz inside the trunx that give me so much trubble. I sais no mo' at present.

Way went the hominybust goin to Broun's, hax folrin behine, and sum runnin ahed, grate nois inside, and the travelers sayin uv nuthin to 1 nuther, but lookin out the winders to see what they could see. Thar is housis and peepul, uv cose, but nuthin wuth

menshuin, untwel you git to the Smithsoniun Institeut, which is on yo' lef han is you go to Broun's. This manshin are not a gearl's skool, like the Buckinghame Institeut, but what the meaning uv it is don't appear to be ginrilly understood. Fum awl I cood gether, the objic is to tend to the wether; you've heerd uv the cluk uv the wether; well, he lives in this buildin, sumwhar; it bein very large nobody don't very often lay eyes on him. In regard uv its exturnels, the Institeut remines me uv a par uv casters. Its culler is red, and when I has lookt at it freekwently, it looks like a hole passel uv steepils had got lost, and were kunsultin together how to git back to the cherchis whar they belongd. But I shill have more to say on this pint in anuther letter. Onqueschinubbly, it are a strange kunsern.

When we got to Broun's, which we did pretty soon, I felt a feelin uv aw, for it wer a imments struckcher. Its length, Billy, is nerely a squar (but you don't know what a squar in a sitty is; I'll tell you sum these tiems), and its about is high is you can fling a rock; bilt all uv white marvel the frunt uv it, the bak uv it bein common brik, and not so high in the ar. Inside thar wuz the same crowd and the same fuss that I tole you uv at the Ixchange in Richmun, only at Broun's evrybody wuz a grate man.

I liked Mr. Broun. He's a small man, with sandy whiskers on his jaw, drest jam up, and very perlite. I put my name doun on his book, in my best ritin, with pekewlyer sattisfacshin. I follerd a I'shmun up stars, loaded with my trunx, ixpectin the same gran

jer of marvel I had seen on the frunt uv the hous to pervale evrywhar. But I wuz disapintid, cummin to my room, and struk with reel wunder and delite. Evrything wuz so intily natchrul, for a moment I didn't kno wha I wuz. "Ar this a room in Broun's marvel pallis!" I ass'd myself. "Whar is the fashunubble trundle-bed with rollin footbode! whar the marvel-top washstan, the splendid bewro, the goldembroydud kertins and things?" They warnt thar, Billy. No, thank Goodniss! The bed were a good, narrer, high bed, high postid, but without any teester and vallins-jest sich a bed as the kuntry afodes most enywhar. In like manner, the washstan uv plane wood, with a little ole pitcher and bole that lookt so frenly to me, well knowin uv thar familyur patturn. The white kertin uv the winder had the ginuine Buckingame frindge, and, Billy, the lookin glass were idintikly the same which par bought when he went to Richmun to see Lee Fate, the French Ginrul which fot the Revolushun with Washintun. Ef thar had bin a rag carpit, split-bottum cheers, and a fier plais, instid uv a gridi'un to burn rock cole, the thing would have bin kumpleat. As it wuz, it lookt so much like hoam, I laid doun and went to sleep befo I node it.*

Nite had cum when I riz frum my slumbus. Tryin

* Addums evidently mistook the clerk (Stewart was his name, I think) for Mr. Brown. The furniture in some of the rooms at Brown's was at that time antiquated to a degree, but has long since given place to more modern, but not, on that account, more comfortable, styles.