CHAPTER IV.


"I think the little folks are getting tired," said Harold. "and yonder on
the lagoon is a gondola waiting for passengers. Shall we take it?"

Everybody seemed pleased with the suggestion, and presently they were in
the gondola gliding over the water. They found it both restful and
enjoyable.

It was past noon when they stepped ashore again, and Ned announced that he
was hungry and wanted something to eat.

"You shall have it, my son," said his father.

"And suppose we go to the New England Cabin for it," suggested Grandma
Elsie.

They did so and were served with an excellent repast, handsome young
Puritan ladies in colonial costumes acting as waitresses.

After satisfying their appetites they visited the other room of the cabin,
which was fitted up as the living room of a family of the olden time. It
had log walls, bare rafters overhead, a tall old-fashioned clock in a
corner, a canoe cradle, a great spinning-wheel on which the ladies,
dressed like the women of the olden times, spun yarn, and gourds used for