INDIANS VISIT A GREAT BREWERY.
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joined them at their beef-steak and chickabobboo, and so did
Mr. Melody and Daniel, and all who had joined in the
merriment of the occasion of Bobasheela's relation of the
story of his going to the wedding astride of the two logs of
wood. After the supper was over, and while the pipe was
passing around, a number of other recitals of adventures in
the " Far-West " continued the amusements of the evenino-
to a late hour, when the author retired and left them to
their own jokes and their night's rest.
The next morning after this was an exciting and bustling
one, as all were preparing, at an early hour, to visit the
great brewery on that day, as had been promised ; and on
their way back to see the Thames Tunnel, and the treasures
of the Tower of London. One will easily see that here was a
gigantic day's work struck out, and that material enough was
at hand for my note-book. Bobasheela must be of this party,
and therefore was not left behind: with all in (except
the two bucks, who habitually went outside), the Indian
bus, with four horses, was a travelling music box as it
passed rapidly through the streets ; and the clouds of smoke
issuing from it at times often spread the alarm that " she
was all on fire within " as she went by. At the brewery,
where they had been invited by the proprietors, servants
in abundance were in readiness to turn upon their giant
hinges the great gates, and pass the carriage into the
court ; and at the entrance to the grand fountain of
chickabobboo there were servants to receive them and an-
nounce their arrival, when they were met, and with the
greatest politeness and kindness led by one of the pro-
prietors, and an escort of ladies, through the vast labyrinths
and mazes, through the immense halls and courts, and under
and over the dry-land bridges and arches of this smoking,
steeping, and steaming wonder of the world, as they were
sure to call it when they got home. The vastness and com-
pleteness of this huge manufactory, or, in fact, village of
manufactures, illustrated and explained in all its parts and
all its mysterious modes of operation, formed a subject of