noon
Uncle Jeremiah listened for the story of Jonah and the gourd to be applied in some way for a lesson to the hearers , but only once , when the minister told what he had seen in Palestine , did he become intelligible to Uncle . It was all so transcendently ethical . Uncle got a remote idea that Chicago was to be likened to Nineveh , and the gourd to the World 's Fair , but when the sermon was done , and all said , he felt that he would have enjoyed the hour so much better in some of the quiet shades of one of the parks , where he would have heard so reverently the still small voice of nature 's teachings . After noon they went to Lincoln Park , and as they stood before Lincoln 's statue , Aunt said : `` This is greater than any sermon I ever heard . '' They read the words and sat on the bench encircling the statue , while Fanny read the sayings of Lincoln chiseled on the stone . Then they visited Grant 's monument . They sat down on the stone steps and looked at the noble figure .