INSIRUGIOR of Y £ ~J'llf\F'l
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Tm~ ScIIOOL BELL EcHoEs. \Yhen the Autumn lea yes arc fall- I ing, and the Winter's Yoicc is calling, And the wind comes \Yhist!i11g I in at the door: Then the le sons are forgotten, and the boys ancl girls are trotting INSIRUGIOR Of Y£ ~J'llf\f'L To the music of the school-hell as it ca !ls us to come indoors But Oh! the sour faces, as we a field of peas just across the was not a cloud lo be seen. As marched into our places, road. \Ye tried to raid the pota- I said before there \Yas a cro\Yd And the '·signs of aggregation" toes first, but there were too of young ladies and gentlemen go- arc not known. many dogs around. I "stumped" ing out for a boat ride. All went Then 'tis too late for fretting, the fellows to go and get our well until they got out into the and it's time that we'd he traps and go to our camp we middle of the lake when one clis gelting left in the morning. Our traps coyerecl a tiny cloud which was The rnles, instead of roan11ng "·ere six miles from camp and we just appearing. She told the out of doors at noon. were a mile from our traps, hut others and wanted them to go - ------ we started and tramped that back but theylaugheclat her and A Trip To North Branch of Prairie. scYcn after half past ten at night. said that it was nothing. Soon Hol 1 yin><t•on. \Ye walked the last six miles in Ithis small cloud became a large, One morning my two camp- a little less than an hour and a black one that spread all oYcr mates and I startedfortheXorth half, not so bad for hungry boys the sky, soon great flashes of Branch, to catch some big trout with packs on their hacks. :\lay- lightning were seen ancl the ( ~o ',ye thought.) \Ye started he we were not lonesome going peaceful lake was stirred up in to ~bout!>.\. :.\I . and intended to be through the woocls with owls a raging lake. The boat with hack about the same time next hooting at us. i\Iaybe we were its load was tossc<l about like a dav. \Ye had to live for a whole too. But we got to camp feeling chip. The men then turnecl to clay on rye bread anclcoffee, with fine, hut very tired. \Ye ate ancl the oars and tried to reach land no milk or butter. We had six ate and kept on eating till we butitwastoolate. A large wave miles to go and it \vas scorching couldn't ate any ate-er, and then swept over the little hoat ancl hot so we clicl not travel Yery went to bccl to sleep the sleep of boat, people and all \Yent down. fast. \Ye reached a place where the weary if not of the just. The next clay, after this storm, we supposed we would sleep that If vou wish to endanger voLir the hoclics were cast upon thc ni.ght, and then p:eparecl dinner. pers;nal appearance just- ask I bank of the lake. \\ e ate a loaf ot our breacl for Lewie B--tt if he will go fishing dinner and so only had one loaf I up Xorth Branch; tell him you I*''* o. o *o ·o "O."o o *· ti ti. * * left to do for two meals. That heard he had a fine time and I: WflJ . GOf'/ff.OR_S, afternoon we tramped about six caught lots of big fish last sum-1 ...· miles up and clown thccrcek, hut mer. Books &Sta1·onery cau~ht no fish. .\fter supper which consisted of bread and The Tragedy of the Lake. I;:, coffee, we went up to the dam to I ~ralJ~J Angle. • . fish. It was a bnght, sunny lore- After it began to get clark, I noon, when a crowd of young ARCHIBALD ClJOLAHAN, hcgan to get "snagged" more ladies an cl gentlemen went out for Physician and Surgeon. often. At last I got so e.·cited I a boat ride on a large lake in fcllinandconscqnentlygotrathcr Xorthern \Yisconsin. The lake damp. Then, as we had caught was very calm, no ripples except :-.pedal attention paicl to owrationf' no fish, wequitand went to camp where the boat plowed through and 1 li ~e11Re1-1 of tlw E.rr. hungry as bears, but nothing to the waters. The rays of sunlight -- eat; but thcre\vas a field of pot a- were kissing the cripples makino- Glasses Carefu11y Adju ted. toes about a mile away, and a them look yery beautiful. There .