The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-09

| So, without consulting you, have ar
ranged little holiday for you.
"That is very kind of you," said
"And pray what is it 10 be-"
II will tell you. You are an enthu
| siastic botanist and entomologist, arr
you not: Very well, then. This islanC
abOunds with unclassified fora anC
fauna. i Will have an expedition fitted
out today, and tomorrow morning we
| will leave the settlement and plunge
into the interior. expect IA weeks alb
senoe from worry will work a wonder
ful change in you. At any rate, Wei
try it, What have you TO say to my
proposition
II should like it above all things"
answered eagerly. And, indeed. apart
from the scientific chances it would
afford me, trip anywhere in her COM
pany could not be anything else than
delightful.
Having gained her point, she rose to
60.
II may consider it settled, l sup
poser she said. "At daybreak tomor-
row morning we are to mount our po-
MES in the square down yonder and set
off. You need not bother about rifles or
any impedimenta of that kind. will
see that you are we'll provided.
So saying, she withdrew, and / saw
no more of her that day. The rest of the
afternoon spent in preparing my speci-
men boxes for the trip, and when /
sought my couch at night it was to
dream of birds and beetles of the most
glorious coloriDg, size and variety.
True to our arrangement, day break
next morning found me, booted and
spurred, striding toward the village
Square. Early as was at the feidez-
vous, Allie was there before me, mount
ed on a neat bay pony, and evidently
awaiting my coming She wished me
"good morning" and then pointed to
the group of pack horses standing at
little distance in charge of half dozen
men.
"We shall not want for provisions
during our travels" she said, with
happy laugh, and as she did so she sign
ed TO one of her attendants to lead up
pony she had reserved for my use.
1.-THE cook and his staff, +" she contin-
ned, 'have gone on ahead of us to pre-
pare our breakfast, so now if you are
ready we'll start"
The order TO march was thereupon
given, and we Immediately set off up
the mountain track.
When the first half dozen miles were
overcome, the aspect of the country be-
gan 10 change. 1t became more open,
and We continually emerged from tim
Der on TO highly grassed plains, where
pig and deer of many kinds were TO be
seen feeding plaoidly. Toward o'clock
the trend of the country lay upward ana
so until we had mounted TO "A
elevation, when an exten.
sive panorama was unfolded before us.
The island must indeed have been a
large one if it could be judged by the
extensive views we had presented to us
OF it. Only Oh the settlement side could
! see the sea, while ON the other the
forest rolled away as far as the eye could
reach.
A little before shutdown Allie inform
ed me that we were close upon our des-
And surely enough, just as
the orb of day disappeared behind the
tree tops, we saw before us, on small
plateau, four or five large and exceed
ingly comfortable huts, which the men
who had preceded us that morning had
erected for our accommodation. They
faced toward the east, and the view
from the little terrace ON which they
stood was beautiful in the extreme.
Across it and for short distance be-