Elsie's Winter Trip

"About seven, I think. I have told our coachman, Jack, that I want the carriage at eight. He will drive me into town and then return, so that carriage and horses will be ready a...

Immediately on leaving the table, they all--entertainers and entertained--set out on the short drive to Sunnyside, where, on arriving, they found their relatives and friends fro...

"My dear child, it is just what I would have you do," he returned, with a gratified and loving smile. "Don't forget that Woodburn is still your home--one of your homes at least-...

For the next week or two, family parties for the honor and entertainment of the newly-married ones were frequent. Life seemed to them bright and joyous, except when they remembe...

Captain Raymond's invitation proved scarcely less agreeable to Mr. and Mrs. Dinsmore than to their younger friends and relatives, and their acceptance was telephoned to Woodburn...

Grandpa Dinsmore had hardly finished relating his reminiscences of his former visits to the Bermudas when a sailor-lad came down the companionway with a message from the Captain...

"I could not, with truth, say it was unpleasant to me, daughter," he returned, with a smile, and passing a hand caressingly over her hair, as she stood close at his side. "The f...

The next morning was bright and clear, the air so much warmer than that which had been left behind on their own shores, that one and all repaired to the deck after breakfast, an...

As on former voyages on the "Dolphin," Sabbath day was kept religiously by all on board the vessel. Religious services--prayer, praise and the reading of a sermon--were held on...

It was a lovely moonlight evening; the "Dolphin's" Captain and all his family and passengers were gathered together upon the deck. It had been a day of sight-seeing and wanderin...

The "Dolphin" and her passengers and crew reached Porto Rico in safety, having made the voyage without detention or mishap. The yacht lay in the harbor of San Juan for nearly a...

Our friends were favored with pleasant weather on their voyage from Porto Rico to Cuba. All were gathered upon deck when they came in sight of "The Pearl (or Queen) of the Antil...

The next morning found the "Dolphin" lying quietly at anchor in the harbor in the inlet around which are the principal towns of the island--Spanish Town, Port Royal and Kingston.

Their sail about the mouth of the Amazon was very interesting to them all, and that up the Pará River to the city of the same name, not less so. They found the city evidently a...

The storm continued for some days, during which the "Dolphin" lay quietly at anchor in the bay of Pará. It was a quiet, uneventful time for her passengers, but they enjoyed them...

"Oh, papa, I'd like ever so much to see our other home, Viamede--grandma lets me call it one of my homes--if there is time, and it isn't too far away."

The "Dolphin" sped on her way, and her passengers enjoyed their voyage whether the sun shone or the decks were swept by wind and rain; for the saloon was always a comfortable pl...

Elsie and Ned were on deck with their pet tee-tees, which seemed to be in even more than usually playful mood, running round and round the deck and up and down the masts. Ned ch...

They did not care to visit the city--most of them having been there several times, and all wanting to spend at Viamede the few days they could spare for rest and pleasure before...