I looked at the big Monkey House and the gorillas and at the bears in their outdoor pools and their caves. We saw a lot of the great big zoo. It had an eagle exhibit too. I looked at them hard. I never saw one before, except on dollar bills and twenty-five cent coins. On nickels is the home of Thomas Jefferson, Monticello. All the coins have "Liberty" on them and "In God We Trust" and, of course, "The United States of America."

Later on, after we rested, I felt better, and we saw the Lincoln Memorial. We went inside, and I looked at the enormous statue. He was a kind man. I liked his beautiful soft look. He loved all the poor people and tried to help them. He was very brave too. Mommy told me how he got shot. I remember the statue on Urbana in the Carle Place when Ford and I played next to President Lincoln. Lincoln said, "God must have loved the common people. He made so many of them."

It was late when we saw the building, and, as it got dark, it was lit up with lots of lights streaming out. Then it was even more beautiful. It shone all over with the light, and the lights danced over the beautiful lake in front of the memorial.

We rode past the Washington Monument and saw that brightly shining and the Capitol too, all lighted up in the dark, and I was proud of being in my own capital of my own United States of America.

One more trip was all we took before I got sick, really sick, and had to go to my doctor, Dr. Wilson Grubb. It was a trip around the Bay Country. We saw the early churches with the little steeples and burial vaults like the one at St. Anne's Churchyard in Annapolis. They were above the ground. In St. Anne's Cemetery in the circle, Sir Robert Eden, who was the last colonial governor, is buried. The day we went to Annapolis was a beautiful day. The sky was very blue. On the river, we saw a boat unloading clams.

The Eastern Shore has all kinds of seafood. The only thing is they don't have lobsters. They're very, very good. In New England, we had lots of them, and they didn't cost much.

We saw Loblolly pines. They are all over the Bay Country. They are very tall evergreens with all the green at the very top tip of the tree.

Sometimes there were flocks of wild swans in the air. There were lots of ducks. There were canvasbacks and mallards and black ducks and pintails. In the winter, the skies were filled with Canada geese.

There are oysters and clams and crabs and shrimp and diamond-backed terrapin and two-hundred different kinds of fish. The Chesapeake Bay is full of herring too. They are there only three months of the year, but they can be caught and salted or canned. Granddaddy talks about how good herring are for you, all the time.

He believes in eating foods that contain vitamins. Fish contain more brain foods than others. Maybe that's why his brain is so good. Mommy says the human brain reaches almost its full weight in the seventh year. So I already have all the brains that I will ever have, because I'm eight and one-half. She says all I have to do is use them-they are there-and feed them the right "thinking food," too.

The bay has the world's largest crane. I didn't see it, but one of the clammers told me about it. He said warships use the bay to reach the world's largest naval base, around Norfolk.

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