33
IV. Escort and Body Guard 38
V. Columbia Avenue 51
VI. Dancers of the Great City 63
VII. On Board the "Illinois" 76
VIII. La Rabida 87
IX. The Plaisance Prophecy 102
X. Plaisance Society 113
XI. A Startling Mystery 128
XII. Beauty Show 137
XIII. Sunday and Conscience 148
XIV. Sight-seeing Galore 163
XV. A Terrible Experience 174
XVI. To Buy a Dog 183
XVII. Cairo Street 194
XVIII. Uncle in the Lock-up 205
XIX. The Lost Found 220

UNCLE JEREMIAH AND FAMILY

AT THE GREAT FAIR

_CHAPTER I_

ON THE WAY

"Apples, pears, bananas, sweet oranges, five cents apiece."

"Last call for dinner in the dining car."

"Ah! this is comfortable," soliloquised Uncle Jeremiah. "All the nations
of the earth contribute to our appetites, and millions are spent to
transport us comfortably. Going to the World's Fair with Mary's two
children, me and Sarah. Say, stranger, what time do you think we'll
arrive?"

"In about two hours if we are on time, but so many people are crowding
on, that I doubt if we can get there before six o'clock."

Uncle Jeremiah had addressed his question to a good-natured appearing
young man just behind him who had been ostensibly reading a newspaper
but really covertly watching with admiring glances Uncle Jeremiah's
grand-daughter Fanny as she replaced the fragments of a lunch back into
the basket. Uncle was in a communicative mood for he had just disposed
of his share of one of Aunt Sarah's admirable lunches and squared
himself round, as he called it, to talk with some one. Johnny was busy
investigating a hole in the seat cushion and Aunt Sarah had laid her
head against the window frame and was calmly viewing the flying scenery
outside. The two seats turned together were occupied by Uncle Jeremiah
and his family and a number of bundles and valises.

"Yes, this is a great country; and, as I have lived in it nigh onto
sixty year and fit for it without seeing much of it but what I tramped
over with Sherman to the sea, I concluded to take the whole world in at
once by spending a month or so at the Exposition. I told