The Nature of Man--Facilities for its Study--A Pilgrimage of
Observation--Dissection of Character, Physical and Moral--The
young Student--The brighter Features of Humanity--An unwitting
Episode--Our World a _Ruin_--Sunrise on the Prairies--
Springfield--Its Location--Advantages--Structures--Society--
Prospects--The Sangamon River--Its Navigation--Bottom-lands--
Aged Forests--Cathedral Pomp--A splendid Phenomenon--Civic
Honours--"_Sic itur ad astra!_"--A Morning Ride--"Demands of
Appetite"--"Old Jim"--A tipsy Host--A revolting Exhibition--
Jacob's Cattle and the Prairie-wolves--An Illinois Table--
The Staples--A Tea Story--Poultry and Bacon--_Chicken Fixens_
and _Common Doins_--An Object of Commiseration 315