Four-footed Americans and their kin . when the daysgrow a little longer, your father and I expect to have aparty, and your mother, Olive, Rap, Nat, and yourselfare to be the guests. We are going to New York tospend the night at a hotel, and visit the Natural HistoryMuseum, and also to see a few four-footed Americansthat live in the Park. I know that you often visitedboth these places when you lived in the city, but I am 2 D 402 FOUR-FOOTED AMERICANS sure you feel a different interest in your four-footedcountrymen since you have climbed their Family Tree. I do already, Uncle Roy, said Dodo. I u
Four-footed Americans and their kin . when the daysgrow a little longer, your father and I expect to have aparty, and your mother, Olive, Rap, Nat, and yourselfare to be the guests. We are going to New York tospend the night at a hotel, and visit the Natural HistoryMuseum, and also to see a few four-footed Americansthat live in the Park. I know that you often visitedboth these places when you lived in the city, but I am 2 D 402 FOUR-FOOTED AMERICANS sure you feel a different interest in your four-footedcountrymen since you have climbed their Family Tree. I do already, Uncle Roy, said Dodo. I used tolook at the stuffed skins, but they seemed dead, far-away beasts, like the Lions and Tigers. Now they arereal people, just like Quick and Mr. Wolf. Oh, how jolly it will be taking Rap around! saidNat; and then, if we go to a hotel, we can have stripedice cream and ride in an elevator! For, do you know,Uncle Roy, Ive told Rap about them, but I dont thinkhe really believes that elevators are real things. XXIX A FOUR-FOOTED DANCE. EFORE the children had tired ofCamp Saturday, or the snow hadquite disappeared from the northside of the stone fences, it wasMarch, and that part of the monthwhen the sun rises and goes tobed promptly at six time of the year when he-paticas, lodging in the leaf mouldof sheltered banks, are unfurlingtheir petals, when the brown carpet of the woods isfragrant and rosy with arbutus flowers, and tufts ofbroad green leaves dot the marshes and low children were quite well again, school kindly tooka double holiday to have a smoky furnace cured, andso all the family at Orchard Farm, except Mammy Bunand Rod, started on their excursion to New in some respects excursions are very much alike:people see, hear, and eat a great deal more than is goodfor them, and are consequently usually rather tired andpeevish for several days afterward. This excursion,however, was of a different sort; it had only one motive,and that was to see in
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