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The oarsman kept close in-shore, and as they rounded the little cape all gay ild cocoa-nut the bushes brushed the boat, and the child, excited by their colour, held out his hands to them Emmeline stretched out her hand and broke off a branch; but it was not a branch of the wild cocoa-nut she had plucked, it was a branch of the never-wake-up berries The berries that will cause a man to sleep, should he eat of theain

"Throw them away!" cried Dick, who reme therasp theot the had struck the keel with a thud, and the water was boiling all round

There was a savage fight going on below In the breeding season great battles would take place sooon, for fish have their jealousies just like reat forms could be dimly perceived, one in pursuit of the other, and they terrified Emmeline, who implored Dick to row on

They slipped by the pleasant shores that E been sound asleep when they ca off she had looked back at the beginnings of the little house under the artu tree, and as she looked at the strange glades and groves, the picture of it rose before her, and seemed to call her back

It was a tiny possession, but it was hoe was she that already a sort of home-sickness was upon her; but it passed away al at the things around her, and pointing them out to the child

When they ca on his oars and told her about it It was the first time she had heard of it; a fact which shows into what a state of savagery he had been lapsing He had mentioned about the canoes, for he had to account for the javelin; but as for telling her of the incidents of the chase, he noso than a red Indian would think of detailing to his squaw the incidents of a bear hunt Conteery, and perhaps the last law of some old and profound philosophy

She listened, and when it came to the incident of the shark, she shuddered