for us as well as you, Annis," Mr. Dinsmore said with a smile,
offering his hand as he spoke. "Are you just from Pleasant Plains?"

"Yes, sir; we left there this morning, and but a moment since stepped off
the train that brought us--nearly all the family of brothers and sisters
with their children."

"Why, yes, to be sure, here are Mildred and the doctor and--well, really
Charley,"--shaking hands with Mildred and her husband--"I will have to be
introduced to all these younger folks."

There was quite a crowd of them--young, middle-aged, and elderly, for the
families had been increasing in numbers, the younger ones growing in size,
and all in years.

All wanted to be together for a time, the older ones to be able to talk
freely of absent dear ones and other family matters, the younger to make
acquaintance with each other.

"Suppose we take a car in the Ferris Wheel," suggested Harold Travilla;
"we can then have a ride, a grand view of the Fair grounds, and a chat,
all at one and the same time."

Everyone seemed to favor the proposition and without further discussion
they all started in that direction.

Arriving at the place they climbed a broad stairway very much like the
approach to an Elevated station.

"This way, ladies and gentleman," said a man in a blue coat, pointing to a
doorway between two knotted beams, and they passed into a sunshiny room
with two rows of chairs at each side. There were windows all about it
barred with iron.

"This is one of the cars," remarked Captain Raymond, in answer to an
enquiring look from Annis, and he and the other gentlemen of the party
busied themselves in seeing the ladies comfortably seated, then took
possession of chairs as near them as might be.

Other people were coming in, and in a very few moments the car was in
motion, the click of a latch having told that they were locked in.

Some of our party who were trying the wheel for the first time looked a
trifle pale and alarmed as the movement began, and one or two of the girls
asked low and tremulously if it were certainly quite safe.

"Yes, I am entirely sure of that," replied Harold with his pleasant smile;
"but don't look out of the windows just yet."

"You are not at all frightened, I see," said Chester Dinsmore in a low
tone to Lulu, having contrived to secure a seat close at her side.

"Oh, no, indeed!" she returned. "This is my second trip and I hardly felt
at all timid even the first time, because my fath