flags around their dusky thighs, the Turks, the Arabs, and men, women, and
children of many other nations all in their peculiar costumes, so
different from the dress of our own people.

Then the hundred thousand flags, very many of our own with their stripes
and stars, and those of perhaps every other nation that has one to
display--were flung to the breeze, while bands from Cincinnati and Iowa,
from Vienna, Suabia, and Arabia had all got together and were playing
Yankee Doodle.

There were besides many curious bands of Oriental musicians--some of them
making great but futile efforts to play our national airs--producing
sounds that were by no means delightsome to the American ear; not half so
pleasing as the sight of the multi-colored flags decorating the huts and
castles of foreign architecture.

It turned out to be a day of pleasant surprises. As they neared the end of
the Plaisance they came suddenly and unexpectedly upon Chester and Frank
Dinsmore and Will Croley, the old college mate of Harold and Herbert, whom
none of them had seen since the summer spent together on the New England
coast several years before.

All were delighted; cordial greetings on both sides were exchanged, and
scarcely were these over when in a lady passing by Grandma Elsie
recognized, with a little cry of joyous surprise, her old time friend and
cousin, Annis Keith.

"Annis! oh, how glad I am to see you!" she exclaimed.

"Elsie! my dear, dearest cousin!" cried Annis in return, as they grasped