at de top, dat he cud see de hole ov de United
Staits, but I gess he lied. We both got as dizzy
as spinnin’ tops, an’ I felt as if thare was a
three-ring sirkus in myhed. I kep my ise open
as long’s I dared, but we we got nere.de top, an’
it seemed like ridin’ threw nowhare on nothin’,
I jest shet my ise tite, an’ brethed hard. It
warn’t long afore de big wheel got round to de
erth agen an’ we got out, but I staggered like a
bote-horse, an’ jest wanted ter lay down ‘sum-
; == ware an’ let my hed git levil agen. Jest den,

up cums a gud samariten an’? he séz to me, sez he, ‘‘Feel bad?’’ sez
he. ‘‘ Yew bet,” sez I, “I don’t no wether I’m standin’ on my hed or on
my heels.” ‘‘ Wate till I mix. yew a dose,” sez he. So he gits a tumbler
ov water’n a tea spoon, an’ pulls out ov his poket a little blew bottle.
. Out cums de effervessin’ powder. ‘‘Grate Scot!” sez I, ‘‘that stuff ’s
awl over de world, it seams!’ ‘So it orter be,” sez he. Wel, sir, I tuk
de glass in my hand, an’ he put in a heapin’ spoonful ov de stuff an’ it
» sizzled away in grate shape. ‘Drink it orf!’ sez he, an’ I downed it wid
my ise klosed, same’s if ’twar fizzik. Den I likt my lips an’ didn’t wunder

everyboddy used der stuff. It was nice tastin’, but I soon felt its gud

 

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-hadn’t staid on de erth. Bill sed wen we was

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