Presently they were in front of the beautiful Peristyle, gazing in awed admiration upon its grand Arch of Triumph, its noble colonnade and statuary, and catching glimpses here and there between its pillars of the beauties beyond.
It was impetuous Lulu who broke the silence with an exclamation of delighted admiration and an eager request that they might land at once and get a nearer view of the fairy scenes that lay before them on the farther side.
The other members of their party, old and young, seemed scarcely less eager, and in a very few moments they were all pacing that grand colonnade to and fro, and gazing out delightedly now upon the blue waters of the lake and anon upon the fairy scene--the Court of Honor--on the inner side.
And soon they hurried their steps thitherward.
"Oh, there," cried Lulu, "is the statue of our great republic! Is she not magnificent ?" "She is, indeed!" replied Grandma Elsie.

"See in one hand she holds a pole bearing a liberty cap, in the other a globe, an eagle with outstretched wings resting upon it; that symbolizes protection, which she has ever been ready to extend to the oppressed of all the earth." "She is a large woman," remarked Walter; "as she should be to adequately represent our great country.

Grandpa, do you know her size ?" "I saw it stated the other day," replied Mr.Dinsmore.

"Her face is fifteen feet long, her arms thirty feet, forefingers forty-five inches, and ten inches in diameter.

Her cost was twenty-five thousand dollars; the gilding alone amounting to fourteen hundred dollars; quite an expensive dress for my lady." "But we don't grudge it to her, papa," remarked Grandma Elsie pleasantly.
"No," he said; "nor anything else the liberty she represents has cost--in money or in life and limb." "But what is her height, grandpa ?" asked Rosie; "it should be very considerable to go with a face fifteen feet long." "Sixty-five feet, and the pedestal on which she stands is thirty feet above water.