I have just returned from an excursion to Watkins Glen, Niagara,
Montreal, Quebec, the White Mountains, and Boston.
I want to tell you about a curiosity which I saw at Watkins, and
which amused me very much. It was a blind bat from Havana. The cage
was covered with a cloth on which was a label that read, "A blind
bat from Havana."
I lifted the curtain expecting to find a great curiosity, but
instead of that, I brought to view a brick suspended by a wire from
the top of the cage. It was a "brickbat," and it came from Havana,
a neighboring town, where there are brick-yards.