"Picked up by brig Calypso. Will write soon.
"Benjamin J. Buttles."
"For this an' all other mercies, thank the Lord!" reverently exclaimed the good woman, wiping her glasses. "But I do hope," she added, a moment later, "that Ben won't go to gettin' into no scrapes down to Savannah, for he's sech a dretful ventur'some creeter." Whether he did, and if so, how he did it, remains to be told in the next number.
[to be continued.]
[THE HOME OF THE REINDEER.]
BY JOHN HABBERTON.
Fully a million American boys have read one or more of Paul Du Chaillu's stories of African travel, and then, like Oliver Twist, demanded more; for the first civilized discoverer of the gorilla seemed to have a peculiar faculty for writing about just those things that boys enjoy. The wishes of these youthful readers are about to be gratified, and in very generous measure, for the author is soon to publish a book of nearly a thousand pages about a country almost as distant and little known by Americans as Equatorial Africa. The title of the work is The Land of the Midnight Sun, and from the numerous pictures it contains we have selected the two illustrations given on the next page.
The people of this wonderful land, which consists of Norway, Sweden, Lapland, and Finland, have comfortable homes, wear good clothes, and always have enough to eat; but between the climate, the shape of the land, and the fact that they see but little of either travellers or tramps, they have many customs that are unusual enough to seem sometimes funny, and always curious.
