CHAPTER V.
GREAT PREPARATIONS.
The day had come for the expedition to Cologne.

It was a perfect day.
The sky was blue and the sun shone bright.

The children had a delightful trip, and the zooelogical garden was beyond all expectation interesting.
Nevertheless, when they went to bed that night, each was a little dissatisfied on looking back over the day.

Each thought:-- "It was splendid! but what a shame!" Yet each was thinking of a different disappointment.
When they went on board the steamboat in the morning, Mrs.Stanhope said:-- "Now, all come and sit here quietly with me; there are so many passengers to-day that it will not do for you to be running about." This prevented Oscar from carrying out his plan of going through the crowd, to find as many fellow-countrymen as he could, whom he could invite to his great Festival.
Emma had cherished a hope that by some unexpected arrangement it would turn out that the boat would stop for a little while in sight of the ruined castle, and she had brought pencils and paper, so as to be ready for the fortunate moment, if it should come.

She was greatly disappointed when the boat shot swiftly by the spot, so that she hardly caught even a glimpse of the chosen view.