Some of the ladies were knitting socks, some carding wool, while they talked together, after the fashion of the good, industrious dames of the olden time they represented.
Our friends, especially the young girls, were greatly interested and amused.
"Suppose we visit some of the State buildings now," said Mrs.Dinsmore, as they left the cabin.
"Pennsylvania's in particular, my dear ?" returned her husband.

"Well, it is a grand old State; we could hardly do better than to show to these little great-grandchildren the famous old bell that proclaimed liberty to this land and all its inhabitants." "So I think," she said.

"Do not you agree with us, captain ?" "I do, indeed," he replied; "my older ones have seen the bell, but I want to show it to Elsie and Ned." "It won't hurt any of us to look again at that old relic of the Revolution," remarked Walter, "and of course we want to see the building." So the whole party at once turned their steps in that direction.
Arrived in front of the building they paused there and scanned the outside.

All pronounced it very handsome.
"Its front seems to be a reproduction of Independence Hall," remarked Mr.
Dinsmore; "it has its entrances and tower." "Yes," said his wife, "I like that and the quarter-circling in of those front corners; those balconies, too." "Is that the State coat-of-arms above the pediment over the front doors, papa ?" asked Grace.
"Yes," was the reply; "and the statues on the sides are those of Penn and Franklin." Just at that moment two women, evidently from the country, came sauntering along and halted near our party.
"What building 's that ?" asked one of the other.

"It's right nice-lookin', isn't it ?" "Yes; and don't you see the name there up over the door ?" "Oh, yes, to be sure! Pennsylvany! Goin' in, Elmiry ?" "Of course; that's the thing to do.