ringy. Rosanna felt as though she was
walking in a riding academy. Everything was exquisitely clean.

As the children walked along, they commenced to hear music everywhere
and to see the merry-go-rounds whirling, the Ferris wheel spinning high
in the air, the squeals from the shute-the-shutes, and hundreds of other
fascinating noises. They found a place where they could check the hamper
and coats, and sat down on a bench for a little to look around.

Presently Helen's father said, "Well, we will have to start if we want
to see everything. Shall we have a ride on the merry-go-round to start
with?"

Rosanna drew out her envelope.

"We must spend our dollar," she said and tore it open. Helen did the
same. Each envelope held a clean new ten dollar bill. The children
looked at them in amazement.

"And I can't use it for college!" Helen wailed. "She made me promise to
spend it."

When they reached the merry-go-round, they chose the wildest looking
horses and mounted them in fear and trembling. When they had finished
the wonderful five minutes, they tried the chariots. Then there was a
certain camel that looked safe and steady, and Helen rode a lion.

They wanted to ride all day, but Helen's father warned them that there
were other things to see. They walked along looking everywhere at once
when Rosanna gave a scream. She found herself looking into a mirror,
clear and bright; but what had it done to Rosanna? She was really a thin
little girl who had often had to take cod liver oil. In the mirror she
gazed at a fat chunk with Rosanna's features and hair and about ten
times Rosanna's breadth. It was quite terrifying. Then she heard an awed
gasp from Helen followed by a shriek of laughter, and ran over to see
what was left of Helen in a mirror that had drawn her out to the
thickness of a needle. Together the girls looked and laughed.

After they had torn themselves away from this amusement, they came to a
booth where dozens of rings like embroidery hoops could be thrown over
pegs in the wall. Each peg had a prize hanging above it: gold watches,
diamond rings, wrist watches, gold and silver bracelets, and dozens of
other things. But most of the pegs had little bright tin tags or medals
and you had to get ten of those before you could exchange them for a
near-gold breast-pin.

Helen and Rosanna were very much excited over this, and could have been
quite covered with medals. They would not throw the rings on any peg
that