was spread out before
them. What happened to them for the remainder of their walk will be
described in the next chapter.

CHAPTER V.

THE ELYSIAN FIELDS.

After sitting a little time upon the stone bench, Rollo and Jennie rose
and resumed their walk. The alley was extremely broad, and it was almost
filled with parties of ladies and gentlemen, and with groups of
children, who were walking to and fro, some going out toward the
Triumphal Arch, and some returning. Rollo and Jennie, as they walked
along, said very little to each other, their attention being almost
wholly absorbed by the gay and gorgeous scene which surrounded them. At
length they perceived that, at a little distance before them, the people
were separating to the right hand and to the left, and going round in a
sort of circuit; and, on coming to the place, they found that the great
basin, or pond of water, which Mr. Holiday had described to them, was
there. This pond was very large, much larger than Rollo had expected
from his father's account of it. It was octagonal in form, and was
bordered all around with stone. There were a number of children
standing in groups on the brink, at different places; some were watching
the motions of the gold fish that were swimming in the water, and others
were looking at a little ship which a boy was sailing on the pond. The
boy had a long thread tied to the bow of his ship; and when the wind had
blown it out upon the pond to the length of the string, he would pull it
back to the shore again, and then proceed to send it forth on another
voyage.

Rollo thought it strange that they should be thus employed on the
Sabbath; for he had been brought up to believe, that, although it was
very right and proper to take a quiet walk in a garden or in the fields
toward the close of the day, it was not right, but would, on the other
hand, be displeasing to God, for any one, old or young, to spend any
part of the day which God had consecrated to his own service and to the
spiritual improvement of the soul in ordinary sports and amusements.
Jennie, too, had the same feeling; and accordingly, after standing with
Rollo for a moment near the margin of the water, looking at the fishes
and the vessels, and at the group of children that were there, she began
to pull Rollo by the hand, saying,--

"Come, Rollo, I think we had better go along."

Rollo at once acceded to this proposal, and they both walked on. They
soon found themselv