arrangements for a lunch.

After an early breakfast we mounted our horses and rode off,
leaving the lunch to be brought in the surrey. When we reached the
mouth of the cave we were a rather jolted-up crowd, for riding
over hills in Texas is not like riding along a road in San
Antonio. But by the time the surrey, with the rope-ladder and
torches arrived, we were squabbling over who should go down first.
To settle that we drew straws, and it fell to my lot to go down
third. The entrance to the cave was not more than six feet round,
and the bottom was reached after a descent of twenty-five feet.
Just half-way down there was a landing that leads off to the upper
part of the cave.

We were first taken to the room that looks as if it were full of
statuary that had been slightly defaced. The most natural of these
is a bust of a veiled woman. Climbing over some rocks we came to
the spring, which is about five feet in circumference. In the
centre is a miniature castle, with its towers, turrets, and
chimneys. The light from our torches made it glisten like
diamonds. If you stand in the centre of the main cave and whisper,
you can be heard in all parts. We threw pebbles down in a shallow
pit where we could see frogs hopping about. May I write and tell
how the cave came to be called by this name?

P. V. R. LOCKWOOD.
SAN ANTONIO.

Yes.

Questions and Answers.

Jules L. Steele: One competitor in the poem contest may send only one
poem. The rule is so made because it is better for competitors to put
their efforts upon one production than to attempt to pen two or more.
Harry H. Luther thinks the Order should hold a reunion every year. Other
members say they think the same way.

A.F. McC.: You may send only one poem in the prize competition. It may
be the one mentioned as having been printed in a local paper. Send it in
manuscript, however.

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