"Ay"--"Oui, yis!"

And away they went at full stretch again on their

journey.

Thus day after day they travelled, and night after

night they laid them down to sleep under the trees of

the forest, until at length they reached the edge of the

Great Prairie.

It was a great, a memorable day in the life of Dick

Varley, that on which he first beheld the prairie--the

vast boundless prairie. He had heard of it, talked of