CHAPTER XVIII.

EARLY HISTORY OF THE SOODOPSIES AS RELATED BY BARREL BROW.—HOW

THEY WERE DRIVEN TO TAKE REFUGE IN THE UNDER WORLD, AND HOW THEY

CAME UPON THE MARBLE HIGHWAY.—THEIR DISCOVERY OF NATURAL GAS

WHICH YIELDS THEM LIGHT AND WARMTH, AND OF NATURE’S MAGNIFICENT

TREASURE HOUSE.—HOW THEY REPLACED THEIR TATTERED GARMENTS AND

BEGAN TO BUILD THE CITY OF SILVER.—THE STRANGE MISFORTUNES THAT

CAME UPON THEM, AND HOW THEY ROSE SUPERIOR TO THEM, TERRIBLE AS

THEY WERE. 114