drinking vessels. Some of the ladies were knitting socks, some carding
wool, while they talked together, after the fashion of the good,
industrious dames of the olden time they represented.

Our friends, especially the young girls, were greatly interested and
amused.

"Suppose we visit some of the State buildings now," said Mrs. Dinsmore, as
they left the cabin.

"Pennsylvania's in particular, my dear?" returned her husband. "Well, it
is a grand old State; we could hardly do better than to show to these
little great-grandchildren the famous old bell that proclaimed liberty to
this land and all its inhabitants."

"So I think," she said. "Do not you agree with us, captain?"

"I do, indeed," he replied; "my older ones have seen the bell, but I want
to show it to Elsie and Ned."

"It won't hurt any of us to look again at that old relic of the
Revolution," remarked Walter, "and of course we want to see the building."

So the whole party at once turned their steps in that direction.

Arrived in front of the building they paused there and scanned the
outside. All pronounced it very handsome.

"Its front seems to be a reproduction of Independence Hall," remarked Mr.
Dinsmore; "it has its entrances and tower."