Elsie's Journey on Inland Waters

he White City for a week or more; there were so many interesting and beautiful exhibits at the Fair st

d together the question where the day should be spent. It was soon evident that they

ng paintings and statuary," said Violet, "and I have an idea that mamma would enj

ma Elsie. "There is nothing I enjoy more than p

o that sentiment," remarked Mrs. Dinsmor

, my dear,

re we shall go,"

I suppose, papa?" remarked Lucilla,

to remain at home-here on the yacht," he

me go with you and mamma," exclaimed the little f

has been very good and given no unnecessary trouble in visiting the Fair thus far. And I can say the sam

, "I think it would be strange indeed should we ever intenti

little Elsie earnestly, and with a lo

ar child," he returned, w

e will make quite a party, even if

It was very large: 320 feet wide by 500 feet in length, with an eastern and western annex, a grand nave and transept 160 feet wide an

ure and paintings, in which every civilized nation was represented, the number of pieces shown being

once before, they still found an abundance of fine works of art which were well worth at

riosity was excited by an oil painting among the Fr

asked of her grandma, who stoo

hin," was the kindly rejoinder, and the child, knowing that Grandma Elsie's promises were

back to the yacht by their father, Grandma Elsie and Grace accompanying them, saying that

, and Elsie added, with a joyous look, "So am

s. Travilla, with a loving smile. "You know if I we

that your strength is not sufficient to enable you to see and enjoy all the b

ittle laugh, "and it is a real enjoyment to me to sit on the deck of the Dolphin with my dear little

that picture I asked you about, grandma?" q

not heard what passed between the lady and the ch

, "I suppose you have no object

tory, and I do not see that it can do the

ated underneath the awning on the deck. Then the captain left them, and Grandma Elsie, n

English and French. The King of England, not satisfied with his own dominions, wanted France also and claimed it because his mother was the daughter of

o have the English king to be th

r followed, and a great many of bot

to drive the English away; but it did not seem as if she-a girl of fifteen, who could neither read nor write, though she could sew and spin and work out in the fields and gardens-could do an

e saw to-day, grandma?" asked El

led, really imagined she heard them, and the p

arked the little girl, in

ces speaking to her no one believed it; they thought she was crazy. But she was not discouraged. She went to her king, or rather the dauphin, for he had not been crowned, and told her s

riding on a white palfrey and bearing a sword and a white banner. The soldiers believed in her, and in consequence were fill

enemies, that they won victory after victory, driving the English out of one province aft

harles begged her to stay with the army, and to please him she did. But she began to have fearful forebodings because she no longer heard the voices. Yet she remained with the

nglish hurt her for fightin

was put to death as a heretic and sorceress; others that some five or six years later

laimed Elsie. "It would be so dreadful to have her

such dreadful, dreadful deeds used to be done. I of

tude and love to God our Heavenly Father that our lot ha

" said Neddie, nestling closer to her, "and our p

cannot tell you how much I used to long for her when Aunt Chloe would tell me

ndma?" he asked, with a wond

th a smile, and stroki

is your papa, isn't he? I hea

and your mamma's grandfather

ittle Elsie, in a t

he boat with Evelyn an

marked Grace, as they stepped upon the deck and d

kindly brought me home. The yacht seems like a ho

pa likes to have us all feel tha

ked Walter, handing Evelyn to a seat, then taking

what have you seen that is wor

Walter; "Brazil, Turkey, Hayti,

did you

f birds, animals, minerals, preserves, spices, coffee, vegetables, fine needlework, some manufactured

d what did he do, Uncle

n and did some very, very w

kill p

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed,' and the

at, Uncle Walter

shortly after he and his

e flood

es

the bad man that carried it," urge

rtune in this new world. He crossed the Isthmus of Panama with Balboa and discovered the Pacific Ocean. While there he heard rumors of a country farther south, where gold and silver were said to be as abundant as iron in Spain, and he

rst making an agreement that all they got of lands, treasures, and ot

m many beautiful and valuable ornaments of gold and silver which the kind-hearted natives had given him, also

kindly," remarked Grace, as Walter

o determined that, not being able to find enough volunteers in Panama, he went all the way back to Spain (a far greater undertaking then than it would be now), told the s

-general of that country. He on his part agreed to raise a certain number of troops, and to send to the King of Sp

oldiers, Uncle Wal?"

considered a very small army; only 1

ated Ned, in a

mounted man and the steed he rode to be but one animal, and were much afraid of them.

scar, and Quito, which he had conquered shortly before, to another son-half-brother to Huascar. The two had quarrelled and had been fighting each other for abou

h other they might have discovered the approach of Pizarro, their comm

nd fifty thousand men assembled. Pizarro had at the most only two hundred; a mere handful in comparison with the

er the papal religion; told him that the Pope had power over all the kingdoms of the earth and that he had

riest, saying that the Pope-whoever he was-must be a crazy fool to talk of giving away co

th into the terrified masses of Indians, while the Spanish cavalry rode them down in a furious, merciless way. The ranks of the poor, unarmed Peruvians were thrown into confusion; their foes were butchering them without mercy; th

ially when he offered, as his ransom, to fill the room

ered a still larger ransom for himself, and to

o let him go-though he took the gold-accusing him of plotting against him; and after much base treachery the Spaniards held a mock trial and condemned Atahualp

t cruel, cruel men!" e

ns would have had to theirs, had they crossed the ocean to Spain and seized upon it for their own. 'All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword,' our Saviour said, and how true it proved in the case of these men of