nearly eleven o'clock
`` Say , Grandpa , I kin see why the sculpture ca n't sculpture clothes on their folks ; but I do n't see why the painters ca n't paint their folks up some more decent . '' That same thing puzzled Uncle , and he could not answer . He thought a great deal , but he only muttered something about pictures not fit to be stuck on his horse-lot gate posts . It was nearly eleven o'clock when Fanny and Aunt found Uncle and Johnny sitting disconsolately on the steps of the south entrance awaiting their appearance . John was patriotic and he wanted to see the liberty bell over in the Pennsylvania building . A great crowd was gathering as they came up and Johnny found out that the interest came from the fact that the Duke of Varagua , the representative of Spain at the Fair and the descended of Columbus , was visiting the bell . It was a sight to awaken memory for the representative of the fifteenth century discovery to be paying respects to the representative of nineteenth century liberty .