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accompanied herself on the guitar. My little cousin's wonder & delight at seeing the various novelties of the city was amusing indeed, for it was to her a new world who had never before (but for a day or so) seen anything but the wild woods & prairies and nothing in the shape of a town larger than the villages on the rivers—On the 8th of June took passage & went aboard the steamer "Excelsior" up for St. Pauls & Fort Snelling a distance of near eight hundred miles from St. Louis. The boat was crowded with freight immigrants and cabin passengers—I found myself in a state room with Mr Sexton, editor of the St. Croix Engineer, Wisconsin, who proved a useful companion & bemusing "study" as thin as an anatomy his smile was ghastly & like a grinning a skull a unclear of "melancholy joy," & his complexion