others."

"Yes, and the boat is waiting for them," added Elsie "and see, they are
getting in."

"Oh, I am so glad," said Grace, "though they are earlier than usual."

"Yes," said Grandma Elsie, "I suppose because it is Saturday evening and
we are all so tired with going and sight-seeing that we need to get early
to bed and rest that we may not be too weary to enjoy the coming Sabbath
day."

"I 'spect so," said Ned, and running forward as his father and the others
stepped upon the deck, "Papa," he asked, "did you come home soon to get
ready to keep Sunday?"

"Yes," was the reply; "we all need a good rest that we may be able to
enjoy God's holy day and spend it in his service."

"Where have you been since we left you, Lu?" asked Grace, as her sister
took a seat by her side.

"Papa took us to look at the Krupp gun," was the reply. "It is a wonderful
one; weighs two hundred and forty-eight thousand pounds; just think! one
hundred and twenty-four tons! It was certainly a great undertaking to
bring it all the way from Essen, Germany, to Chicago. They told us that at
Hamburg and at Baltimore great cranes were used, one of which could lift a
sixty-five ton locomotive, to lift the gun to the trucks that were to
carry it on the railroad; they had to put eight trucks under it, fastening
two together, then the two pair together, and so on till they had the