Hurray, hurroo, hurree!
And his own shoes, they made three!"

Mr. Maynard's doggerel was always highly appreciated by the children, and
they sang the pleasing ditty over and over, while King rubbed away at the
shoes in time to the chorus.

The sun was setting as they neared New Haven. The approach, along the
shores of the beautiful harbor, was most picturesque, and both the
children and their parents were impressed by the beauty of the scene. The
setting sun turned the rippling water to gold, and the shipping loomed
against the sky like a forest of bare tree-trunks.

"Oh," exclaimed Marjorie, clasping her hands, "isn't it lovely to go
motor-carring with your own dear family, and see such beautiful
landscapes on the river?"

"Your expressions are a little mixed," said her father, laughing, "but I
quite agree with your sentiments. And, now, who is ready for a good
dinner?"

"I am," declared Kitty, promptly; and they all laughed, for Kitty was
always the first in the dining-room.

The automobile stopped in front of a large hotel which overlooked the
College Green. While Mr. Maynard was engaging rooms, Mrs. Maynard and the
children lingered on the veranda. The beautiful trees of the City of Elms
waved high above their heads, and across the Green they could see the
stately college buildings.

"Can we go over there?" asked King, who was interested, because he hoped,
himself, some day to go to college.

"Not to-night," said his father, who had just rejoined the group;
"to-morrow morning, King, we will all go through the college grounds and
buildings. But now we will go to our rooms and freshen up a bit, and then
we must get some dinner for our poor, famishing Kitty."

Kitty laughed good-naturedly, for she was used to jokes about her
appetite, and didn't mind them a bit.

They went upstairs to a pleasant suite of rooms, one of which was for the
use of Midge and Kitty.

"You must change your frocks for dinner," said Mrs. Maynard to the girls.
"The suitcases will be sent up, and you may put on your light challies."

So Marjorie and Kitty made their toilettes, stopping now and then for
frantic expressions of joy and delight at the fun they were having; and
soon, with ribbons freshly tied, and dainty house slippers, they were
ready to go downstairs.

CHAPTER XVI

AT THE CIRCUS

The next morning the Maynard family visited Yale College.

As Mrs. Maynard had seen most of the buildings before, she only