The violet that grows in the fields is very small, and is oftenest a deep purple, but sometimes the petals are purple and white mottled together.
H. W. S.
Connecticut.
A Bit of An Old Fort.
Not very far from Bluffton near Beaufort is situated the island called Paris Island. A friend of my father's owns a part of this, and he says that on it are the remains of old Fort Charles, built by the Huguenots in 1562. Will some one please write to me? I am fourteen. Bluffton is in the very southwestern part of Beaufort County, S. C. The steamer Alpha plies between Bluffton, Beaufort, and Savannah, but she is the slowest steamer in existence.
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