We didn't have as nice a supper as we did in New York.
"It is late now, and the lamps are lighted in the streets.

I can see from the window the people hurrying by, and some soldiers, and one funny little tired mule drawing a great wagon of something.
"There! he's stopped and won't move an inch, and the man is whipping him awfully.

The wicked old thing....
"I was just going to open the window and tell him to stop, but father says I mustn't.
"As we rode up from the depot, I saw a great round dim thing away in the dark.

Father says it is the dome of the Capitol." GYPSY'S JOURNAL.
"After Sundown, Sunday Night.
"Father says it isn't any harm to write a little about what we saw to-day, because we haven't been anywhere except to church.
"The horrid old gong woke me up real early this morning.

I should have thought it very late at home, but they don't have breakfast in hotels till eight o'clock hardly ever, and you can get up all along till eleven, just as you like.