too, and possibly older folks might find some amusement there also."

"Oh, what is it, Uncle Walter?" asked Ned eagerly. "I'd like to see some
buffaloes."

"Well, so you will if we go," replied Walter, "for there's a herd of them
to be seen there. It is outside the Exposition grounds, but worth going to
see, I should think. There are rifle experts, bucking ponies, dancing
dervishes, athletes, female riders, besides American, German, French,
English, Cossack, Mexican, and Arabian cavalry, to say nothing of cowboys,
and other attractions too many to mention."

"Oh!" cried Ned, "I want to go. Can't I, papa?"

"All alone?" asked his father laughingly. "No, my son, I fear you are
rather young for that."

"Oh, no, papa; I didn't mean all alone. But won't you take mamma and Elsie
and all the rest, and me too?"

"Yes, if mamma and all the rest want to go."

"There are two hundred Indians there, Ned. Won't you be afraid of them?"
asked Lucilla.

"No, Lu; not with our papa along to take care of us. If you're afraid, I
s'pose you can stay on the _Dolphin_ here till we come back."

"Thank you, Ned," she said laughing; "but I believe I feel quite as safe
where papa is as you do. And I think I should like to see that show