yed this banquet very much indeed. Besides the coffee, they
had water, which they sweetened in the tumblers with large lumps of
white sugar. They talked all the time while they were eating, each in
his own language, and laughed very merrily. "After all," said Rollo,
"this is the very best place in the whole garden. Feeding the bears is
very good fun; but this is infinitely better."

After remaining for half an hour at the table, and eating till their
appetites were completely satisfied, they concluded to go back and see
the monkeys again.

In the mean time, Mr. George and his friend, with Jennie, had been
engaged in an entirely different part of the garden; for the whole
enclosure is so large that it takes many days to see the whole. On one
side, bordering on a street, there is a long row of houses and gardens,
occupied by professors, who give courses of lectures on the plants and
animals which the garden contains. On another is a magnificent range of
buildings, occupied as a museum, containing endless collections of dried
plants, of minerals and shells, of skeletons, and the stuffed skins of
birds and beasts. Then there is a very large tract of level land,
between two splendid avenues, all laid out in beds of plants and
flowers, forming a series of parterres, extending as far as the eye can
reach, and presenting the gayest and most beautiful combination of
colors that can be conceived. Jennie was very much delighted with all
these things, as she walked about in these parts of the garden with her
uncle, though she was somewhat uneasy all the time because she could not
see any thing of Rollo.

"I don't believe," said she at last to her uncle, as they were standing
on the margin of a beautiful little artificial pond, full of lilies and
other aquatic plants, "I don't believe that we can find him at all in
such a large garden."

"Yes," said Mr. George; "there'll be no difficulty. There is one
universal rule for finding boys in the Garden of Plants."

"What is that?" asked Jennie.

"Go to the places where they keep the monkeys and the elephants," said
Mr. George; "and if you don't find them there at once, wait a few
minutes, and they'll be pretty sure to come."

It was as Mr. George had predicted; for, on going to the palace of the
monkeys, there they found Rollo and Carlos laughing very heartily to see
a big monkey holding a little one in its arms as a human mother would a
baby.

The party, when thus united, went