THE CITY IN THE SEA
"To-day brings the great surprise," said the Sunbonnet Babies' father one morning. "You remember I said we should visit a place here in Italy which you would like even better than Sorrento or Capri. We are going to that place to-day."
"Oh, where is it?" exclaimed both little girls. "How shall we get there? What are we going to see?"
"You must not ask so many questions. It would not be a surprise if I should tell you all about it," said their father. "But we shall take the train this morning, and before we go to bed to-night we shall be there."
All day Molly and May were much excited thinking about the wonderful surprise awaiting them. Their train carried them slowly northward through the lovely Italian country straight toward the high mountains.
"Must we go over those mountains, father, or can we go through them?" May asked eagerly.
"We shall do both," answered her father. "We shall go over a part of them and we shall go through the rest. In a moment our train will enter the first tunnel."
"Oh! Oh! We are in it now!" exclaimed Molly. "How dark it is!"
Then, almost before she knew it, they were out in the bright sunshine again, creeping along a high bridge above a deep valley. In and out of many tunnels they went, and across many high bridges from which they had wonderful glimpses of the valleys and rivers below and of the mountains towering high above them.
"Is this Switzerland, father?" Molly asked at last.