The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair

The Adventures of Uncle
Jeremiah and Family
by
Charles McCellan Stevens (AKA
'Quondam')

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Title: The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair
Their Observations and Triumphs
Author: Charles McCellan Stevens (AKA 'Quondam')
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The
Adventures of
Uncle Jeremiah
and
Family
At The
Great Fair
60 Illustrations
The Pastime Series--Issued monthly. By subscription, $8.00 per annum.
No. 108. June, 1893, Entered at Chicago P. O. as second-class matter.
Chicago
LAIRD & LEE, Publishers
1893

[Illustration: "Apples, pears, bananas, sweet oranges."]

The Adventures
OF
UNCLE JEREMIAH
AND FAMILY
AT THE
Great Fair
Their Observations and Triumphs
By "Quondam"
With Sixty Illustrations
Chicago
LAIRD & LEE. Publishers
1898
COPYRIGHT, 1893, BY LAIRD & LEE
(ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)

To UNCLE JEREMIAH AND FAMILY And to All those Interested in
the WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION This Book Is Respectfully
Dedicated

CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. On the Way 7 II. Now for the Fair 20 III. Around the World for
Twenty Cents 33 IV. Escort and Body Guard 38 V. Columbia Avenue
51 VI. Dancers of the Great City 63 VII. On Board the "Illinois" 76
VIII. La Rabida 87 IX. The Plaisance Prophecy 102 X. Plaisance
Society 113 XI. A Startling Mystery 128 XII. Beauty Show 137 XIII.
Sunday and Conscience 148 XIV. Sight-seeing Galore 163 XV. A
Terrible Experience 174 XVI. To Buy a Dog 183 XVII. Cairo Street
194 XVIII. Uncle in the Lock-up 205 XIX. The Lost Found 220

UNCLE JEREMIAH AND FAMILY
AT THE GREAT FAIR

CHAPTER I
ON THE WAY
"Apples, pears, bananas, sweet oranges, five cents apiece."
"Last call for dinner in the dining car."
"Ah! this is comfortable," soliloquised Uncle Jeremiah. "All the nations
of the earth contribute to our appetites, and millions are spent to
transport us comfortably. Going to the World's Fair with Mary's two
children, me and Sarah. Say, stranger, what time do you think we'll
arrive?"
"In about two hours if we are on time, but so many people are crowding
on, that I doubt if we can get there before six o'clock."
Uncle Jeremiah had addressed his question to a good-natured appearing

young man just behind him who had been ostensibly reading a
newspaper but really covertly watching with admiring glances Uncle
Jeremiah's grand-daughter Fanny as she replaced the fragments of a
lunch back into the basket. Uncle was in a communicative mood for he
had just disposed of his share of one of Aunt Sarah's admirable lunches
and squared himself round, as he called it, to talk with some one.
Johnny was busy investigating a hole in the seat cushion and Aunt
Sarah had laid her head against the window frame and was calmly
viewing the flying scenery outside. The two seats turned together were
occupied by Uncle Jeremiah and his family and a number of bundles
and valises.
"Yes, this is a great country; and, as I have lived in it nigh onto sixty
year and fit for it without seeing much of it but what I tramped over
with Sherman to the sea, I concluded to take the whole world in at once
by spending a month or so at the Exposition. I told Sarah we'd take
Mary's two children along, for I didn't like to leave them so long with
our hired help. Then they'd be company for us. Mary was our girl, but
she's dead now, and so Johnny and Fanny must take her place. Me and
Sarah has worked hard for many a year, and we're going to enjoy this
trip ef it takes more 'n a dozen of my best Jerseys to foot the bill. We've
got the best farm and Jersey herd in Park County, and I've made up my
mind that we can afford it."
The stranger laid down his paper and seemed much interested in the
talking farmer and