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"It would make a splendid subject for an article in the 'Annals of Applied Geology' Only--well, there aren't any annals, now, and what's more, no readers!"

Down to the wider pool he walked

"Stern, et an A-1, first-class dip!"

A orously in the water Froorously with the fine, white sand And when, sole and joy of life filled him in every nerve

For athere on the edge of the pool Then with a grunt he kicked theed he "The bear-skin, back in the building, there, will be enough" He picked up his sledge, and, heaving a ain

"Ah, but that was certainly fine!" he exclaier, already Ten, frohtfully, as he walked across the elastic moss and over the pine-needles, he stroked his beard

"Now, if I could only get a hair-cut and shave!" said he "Well, why not? Wouldn't that surprise her, though?"

The idea strong upon him, he hastened his steps, and soon was back at the door close to the huge Norway pine But here he did not enter Instead, he turned to the right

Plowing through the woods, cli-stones, flushing a covey of loud-winged partridges, parting the bushes that grew thickly along the base of the wall, he now found hin, now of paving or car-tracks--nothing save, on the other side of the way, cru the detritus of the Metropolitan, he kept sharp watch for the wreckage of a hardware store

Not until he had crossed the ancient line of Madison Avenue and penetrated so Twenty-Third Street, did he find what he sought "Ah!" he suddenly cried "Here's sorown rubbish with a couple of tie of an electric car--hehole where a side-walk had caved in and so reached the interior of a shop

"Yes, prospects here, certainly prospects!" he decided carefully inspecting the place "If this didn't use to be Currier & Brown's place, I' left"