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 "There they are! There they are!" cried both of the twins together.

"Those dark spots are the trees and bushes on the tops of the dunes," explained one of the twins. "We don't get out of sight of land at all, on a clear day. When Chicago has dropped away from behind us, we can just begin to see Indiana."

"Indiana?" said Bess. "Why, I thought it was Michigan City that we were going to!"

"So it is," said Twinny—I don't know which one!—"but Michigan City is in Indiana. Didn't you know that?"

"No. Then why do they call it Michigan City?"

"Well," said Twinny, "it used to be in Michigan, so they say. Michigan used to stretch clear around the lake to Illinois, and Indiana didn't have any shore line at all; and that didn't seem fair, when Michigan has lake pretty nearly all around her; and so they made some sort of a bargain and let Indiana have that little corner. Michigan City was on a part of the land that Indiana took and so she had to change her last name."

We all laughed. "Just like getting married," said Bess.