CHAPTER XXIX.
MARY, RALPH, JAKE AND SIBYLLA VISIT THE ALLENTOWN FAIR.
Late in September Jake and Sibylla drove to the Allentown Fair.

It was "Big Thursday" of Fair week.

They started quite early, long before Ralph Jackson, who had come from the city the day previous, to take Mary to the Fair, had arisen.
[Illustration: SECOND CHURCH BUILDING Sheltered Liberty Bell, 1777-78.

Photographed from the print of an old wood cut used in a German newspaper in the year 1840] Mary, while appreciating Sibylla's good qualities, never failed to be amused at her broad "Pennsylvania German" dialect.
The morning of the "Fair," Mary arose earlier than usual to allow Sibylla and Jake to get an early start, as it was quite a distance from the farm to the Fair grounds.

As they were about to drive away, Sibylla, alighting from the carriage, said, "I forgot my 'Schnupftuch.'" Returning with it in her hand, she called, as she climbed into Jake's buggy, "Gut-by, Mary, it looks fer rain." "Yes" said Jake, "I think it gives rain before we get back yet.