I wonder the Senators don't get lost sometimes.
"About the first place you come into is a round room, called the rotunda.

Uncle says rotunda means round.

There are some pictures there.
One of them is Washington crossing the Delaware, with great cakes of ice beating up against the boat.

One of the men has a flag in his hand.
Gypsy and I liked it ever so much.
"Oh!--the dome of the Capitol isn't quite finished.

There is scaffolding up there, and it doesn't look very pretty.
"Well, then we went upstairs, and I never saw such handsome stairs! They are marble, and so wide! and the banisters are the most elegant variegated marble,--a sort of dark brown, and they are _so_ broad! Why, I should think they were a foot and a half broad, but then I don't know exactly how much a foot is.
"We went into two rooms that Gypsy and I both liked best of anything.
One is called the Marble Room, and the other the Fresco Room.