ty for studying the slaughter of
cattle, salting of hides, and to visit the home of the biscacho, that
troublesome burrower of the pampas and layer of traps for unwary
horsemen.
At last the vessel by which they were to return was loaded up, and
good-bye said to the worthy Italians, father and son, the former being
warm in his thanks for the care taken of his boy.
"What," cried old Shaddy as he stood on the deck of the great vessel the
day they were to sail, "good-bye? Not a bit of it, Mr Rob, sir! All
being well, if you and Mr Brazier don't run out to try and find a way
up the gorge where the great falls rush down, I'm coming over to the old
country to see you. But there, you'll be out our way again soon."
"What did Naylor say?" asked Brazier that evening.
"That he could take us to fresh places where you would find plants more
worthy of your notice than those you found."
"Ah! Yes," said Brazier thoughtfully as he watched the fading shore.
"I should like to go again in spite of all we suffered. As for you,
Rob, I suppose you would not care to go again?"
"Not care to go again!" cried Rob; and his eyes grew dim as he half
closed them and recalled to memory the great rivers, the glorious trees,
and the many wonders of those untrodden lands. "I could go back now,"
he said, "and face all the fight again;" but even as the words left his
lips other memories came floating through his brain, and from that hour
his thoughts were directed eastward to his kindred and his native land.
THE END.
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