stayed a long time, buying gifts for all of you. It looked like
fairyland with all the red lanterns and pretty flags flying. It was
Queen Day. The queen’s chariot was a big bird, like a swan, only more
beautiful.
Then we zigzagged across again and did things on the other side of the
Zone, like going up in the funny thing which gives you a ride in the
air, so you can see all the Fair at once. Then we stopped a few minutes
in Old Mexico, but we had been there before, you know, so we came out
and went to see the little babies in the incubators. They are very
sweet, but are so little that they cannot live in just beds like other
babies. They should have had “The Blue Bird” to read before they came
and then they would not have been in so much of a hurry, because it
cannot be any fun to be shut up in there.
We were hungry when we saw the chickens being roasted in front of a
cafe, so we went in and had some lunch, and came out in time to see the
big man walk across the Zone on a wire stretched away above our heads.
We bought some candies, and saw them being made, and father bought us
each a Nova Gem pendant, so we should not forget how the Tower sparkles
in the sun, and then we went down to see the man fly. He writes his name
in the sky, but it does not stay there very long. Father says Fame is
like that.
Then we came out and stood and looked back at the Tower, and out under
the arches, out to where the bay was shining in the setting sun, and
were glad that we had come. Father asked us what we had liked most. We
couldn’t answer just at first, but after we were outside we knew. We had
loved it, every bit of it, but the best thing of all was going home to
mother.
Your loving cousins,
JANE AND ELLEN.
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