PILOGUE

“Tutti i salmi finiscono in gloria.”

All the psalms wind up with the Gloria. — ”As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, World without end. Amen.”

Well, then, Amen.

I hope you say Amen! along with me, dear little reader: if there be any dear little reader who has got so far. If not, I say Amen! all by myself. — But don’t you think the show is all over. I’ve got another volume up my sleeve, and after a year or two years, when I have shaken it down my sleeve, I shall bring it and lay it at the foot of your Liberty statue, oh Columbia, as I do this one.

I suppose Columbia means the States. — ”Hail Columbia!” —