BY ALFRED B. STREET.
"Good news! great discovery! new falls!" broke out in full chorus, boys and girls, at a party given by Jobson, in Monticello.
"How did you happen to find them, Mayfield?" asked Allthings.
"I was fishing, and came upon them all at once. I heard a roar of some waterfall or other, and the first I knew, I saw the chasm immediately below me!"
"What was their appearance?"
"There were two falls quite precipitous, and two basins. From the second basin the stream ran very smooth and placid again through a piece of woodland."
"Good!—great!—new falls!" came anew the chorus.
"What is the name of the falls, Mayfield?" inquired Allthings once more.
"The people thereabouts call them Gumaer's Falls."
"Horrid!—too common!—awful! Sha'n't have such a name!" was again the chorus.