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diverse as the blacksmith, the pipemaker’s shop, or<br />
the wiggery.<br />
They enjoyed the costumed interpreters who<br />
explained how candles were made from beeswax, or<br />
how sheep were shorn of their wooly coats.<br />
Costumed kids used sticks to push wooden hoops<br />
down the lanes.<br />
They ate lunch at Christiana Campbell’s<br />
Tavern. Papa loved the old-timey tavern<br />
atmosphere. Mimi admired the pewter place<br />
settings. Grant ordered pea soup and Christina<br />
ordered Virginia ham and biscuits. Papa ordered<br />
calves’ tongue! Mimi ordered vegetables, but she<br />
was looking eagerly at the dessert tray filled with<br />
puddings, cakes, pies, and tarts.<br />
Their waitress wore a long full skirt and<br />
apron, and gathered white cap. Some men in the<br />
tavern wore fancy breeches, silk waistcoats, and<br />
powdered wigs!<br />
After lunch, they shopped for souvenirs.<br />
Grant and Papa bought matching tricorn hats. Mimi<br />
bought sweet-smelling potpourri, and Christina<br />
bought a cornshuck doll.<br />
As the afternoon wore on, Christina began to<br />
get worried. She wondered what was going on back<br />
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