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26 "Everything in the world," said Robin. "Things from everywhere—from every country."

"There are a great many countries," said Meg.

"You know how it is in the geography. Europe, Asia, and Africa, as well as America, Spain and Portugal, and France and England, and Norway and Russia and Lapland, and India, and Italy and Switzerland, and all the others."

"There will be things, and people, brought from them all. I heard them say so. They say there will be villages with people walking about in them."

"As they walk about when they are at home?" exclaimed Meg.

"Yes, in the queer clothes they wear in their own countries. There's going to be an Esquimaux village."

"With dogs and sledges?" cried Meg, lifting her head.

"Yes, and you know that place in Italy, where the streets are made of water"—

"It's Venice," said Meg. "And they go about in boats called gondolas"—

"And the men who take them about are called gondoliers," interrupted Robin. "And they have scarves and red caps. There will be gondolas at the Fair, and people can get into them and go about the canals."