But they were drawing near their port, and there was much on both land and
water to attract their attention. Presently they were in front of the
beautiful Peristyle, gazing in awed admiration upon its grand Arch of
Triumph, its noble colonnade and statuary, and catching glimpses here and
there between its pillars of the beauties beyond.

It was impetuous Lulu who broke the silence with an exclamation of
delighted admiration and an eager request that they might land at once and
get a nearer view of the fairy scenes that lay before them on the farther
side.

The other members of their party, old and young, seemed scarcely less
eager, and in a very few moments they were all pacing that grand colonnade
to and fro, and gazing out delightedly now upon the blue waters of the
lake and anon upon the fairy scene--the Court of Honor--on the inner side.
And soon they hurried their steps thitherward.

"Oh, there," cried Lulu, "is the statue of our great republic! Is she not
magnificent?"

"She is, indeed!" replied Grandma Elsie. "See in one hand she holds a pole
bearing a liberty cap, in the other a globe, an eagle with outstretched
wings resting upon it; that symbolizes protection, which she has ever been
ready to extend to the oppressed of all the earth."

"She is a large woman," remarked Walter; "as she should be to adequately
represent our great country. Grandpa, do you know her size?"

"I saw it stated the other day," replied Mr. Dinsmore. "Her face is
fifteen feet long, her arms thirty feet, forefingers forty-five inches,