each other's hands and looked with ardent affection each into the other's
eyes. "Oh, how delightful to have come upon you so quickly! I was
wondering if I could ever find you in all this crowd, and to have fairly
stumbled upon you almost the first thing after leaving the cars is most
fortunate."

"Yes; for us as well as you, Annis," Mr. Dinsmore said with a smile,
offering his hand as he spoke. "Are you just from Pleasant Plains?"

"Yes, sir; we left there this morning, and but a moment since stepped off
the train that brought us--nearly all the family of brothers and sisters
with their children."

"Why, yes, to be sure, here are Mildred and the doctor and--well, really
Charley,"--shaking hands with Mildred and her husband--"I will have to be
introduced to all these younger folks."

There was quite a crowd of them--young, middle-aged, and elderly, for the
families had been increasing in numbers, the younger ones growing in size,
and all in years.

All wanted to be together for a time, the older ones to be able to talk
freely of absent dear ones and other family matters, the younger to make
acquaintance with each other.

"Suppose we take a car in the Ferris Wheel," suggested Harold Travilla;
"we can then have a ride, a grand view of the Fair grounds, and a chat,
all at one and the same time."

Everyone seemed to favor the proposition and without further discussion