s very odd.

"What was it you said that strawberry-place was in the shadow
of sometimes?"

"Wut-a-qut-o?"

"What's that?"

"The big mountain over there. _This_ was in the shadow of it a
little while ago."

"What a queer name! What does it mean?"

"It is Indian. I have heard that it means, the whole name, --
'_He that catches the clouds_.'"

"That is beautiful! --"

"You must be tremendously strong," she added presently, as if
not satisfied that she had said enough, -- "for you lifted me
as if I had been no more than a featherweight."

"You did not seem much more," he said.

"Strong! --" said Asahel --

But Elizabeth escaped from Asahel's exposition of the subject,
into her room.

She had regained her good-humour, and everybody at the table
said she had improved fifty per cent. since her coming to
Shahweetah. Which opinion Mr. Haye confirmed when he came a
day or two afterward.

CHAPTER X.

_Cam_. Be advised.
_Flo_. I am; and by my fancy: if my reason
Will thereto he obedient, I have reason;
If not, my senses, better pleased with madness,
Do bid it welcome.
WINTER'S TALE.

The young ladies' summering in the country had begun with good
promise; there was no danger they would tire of it. Mr. Haye
gave it as his judgment that his daughter had come to the
right place; and he was willing to spare no pains to keep her
in the same mind. He brought up a little boat with him the
next time he came, and a delicate pair of oars; and Elizabeth
took to boating with great zeal. She asked for very little
teaching; she had used her eyes, and now she patiently
exercised her arms, till her eyes were satisfied; and after
that the "Merry-go-round" had very soon earned a right to its
name. Her father sent her a horse; and near every morning her
blue habit was fluttering along the roads, to the great
admiration of the country people who had never seen a long
skirt before. And every afternoon, as soon as the sun hid
himself behind the great western mountain, her little white
boat stole out from the rocks and coasted about under the
point or lay in the bay, wandering through sunshine and shade;
loitering where the north wind blew softly, or resting with
poised oars when the sun was sending royal messages to earth
_via_ the clouds. On horseback or in the boat, -- Miss Elizabeth
would not take exercise in so common a way as walking, -- she
did honour to the nurture of the fresh air. The thin cheek
rounded out; an