it, dreamed about it, but he had never--no, he had

never realized it. 'Tis always thus. Our conceptions

of things that we have not seen are almost invariably

wrong. Dick's eyes glittered, and his heart swelled, and

his cheeks flushed, and his breath came thick and quick.

"There it is," he gasped, as the great rolling plain

broke suddenly on his enraptured gaze; "that's it--oh!--"

Dick uttered a yell that would have done credit to

the fiercest chief of the Pawnees, and being unable to

utter another word, he swung his cap in the air and