HOV VZESPEAYVED SROBINSON “CRUSOE.

the natives. We had one fried. Its meat was perfectly white, and tasted like
a tallow candle.

The day on which we were to leave, Wahpering brought us some fruit and
“fish and a pair of ring-doves. Motioning me to one side he whispered, the
while looking shyly at the mistress, “ Ranee very beautiful! How much you
pay?” I was staggered for the moment, and made him repeat his question.
This time I could not mistake him. “ How much you pay for wife?” He gave
his thumb a jerk in the direction of the mistress. I saw that he was really
serious, so I collected my senses, and, with a practical, business-like air, answered,
<<Two hundred dollars.” The old fellow sighed.

“The great Rajah very rich! I pay fifty for best wife.”

T have not tried to tell you all we did on our tropical island playing Robinson
Crusoe. I have only tried to convey some little impression of a happy ten days
that will ever be remembered as one more of those glorious, oriental chapters
in our lives which are filled with the gorgeous colors of crimson and gold, the
delicate perfumes of spice-laden breezes and with imperishable visions of a
strange, old-world life.

They are chapters that we can read over and over again with an ever-increas-
ing interest as the years roll by.

Rounsevelle Wildman.

 

 

SPRING IS IN THE AIR.