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repay the search after Indian rehcs. 

 Here on the meadow flats bordering 

 the Hannakrois Creek I have noticed 

 on hasty examination traces of abori- 

 ginal occupation. This region is sit- 

 uated over the mountain to the south- 

 west of Lawson's Lake. 



The Helderberg region is a paradise 

 for the cave hunter, as many small 

 caverns and some of considerable size 

 and length have been explored, while 

 probably a far greater number are yet 

 unknown. Some of the Helderberg 

 caves have their entrance-way situ- 

 ated on almost inaccessible ledges. 



Thompson's Lake has a subterran- 

 ean outlet, leading no one knows 

 where. This mysterious conduit re- 

 ceives the total discharge from the lake 

 except in times of unusually high wa- 

 ter when a portion of the outflow finds 

 escape by an old watercourse, which 

 was probably the ancient outlet of the 

 lake before the water found its subter- 

 ranean channel. This brings to mind 

 the description published in The Mus- 

 eum of the lake in Florida, with a sub- 

 terranean outlet, which at times would 

 become closed, and then again would 

 be open. Perhaps our lake in the 

 Helderbergs has undergone similar 

 changes in by gone times. 



EL LAGARTO. 



Our genial friend Louie has been up 

 to one of his old jokes again. It is 

 well known in the vicinity that Louie 

 keeps an alligator-yard, inhabited by a 

 "gator" somewhat less than a meter 

 in length. The other day Louie was 

 accosted by old Mrs. Persimmons who 

 inquired as to the health of the sau- 

 rian. Louie replied that the reptile 

 was flourishing muchly and further- 

 more was laying right along: — "Two 



eggs yesterday and one again this 

 morning." Mrs. P. at once thought 

 she saw her opportunity and inquired 

 if she conld not get a "sitting" of the 

 eggs, saying that she had a bantum 

 hen, or rooster, that wanted to set. 

 Louie was cornered, but thought that 

 he had gotten "out of it" by telling 

 her that he really did not believe the 

 eggs to be fertile. 



Evidently this term was greek to 

 Mrs. P., for in a short time she sent 

 her daughter around fa four-mile walk 

 by-the-wayj after "that settin' of alli- 

 gator aigs. " Some explanations fol- 

 lowed, but probably not quite satis- 

 factory for we learn that Louie has 

 since sent down a setting of eggs tak- 

 en from the dove-cote. What success 

 the bantum rooster will have in raising 

 a brood of pickaninny-chasers from 

 these, the future will disclose. 



Glenville, N. Y. , May i, 1896. 



QUERIES AND SUGGESTIONS. 

 Heavenly Phenomenon- 



When I was a boy a regular diary 

 was kept, and for many years every 

 event of any moment, and thousands 

 of items of no earthly use were jotted 

 down. But in the course of a series 

 of years many points of interest will be 

 noted, and in later times will form 

 food for thought and speculation, and 

 at least good reading for the remines- 

 cent reader who wrote the collection. 

 The writer is proud of his early diary, 

 both because it indicates a determina- 

 tion on the part of a youngter to carry 

 out a course of written reasoning, and 

 also gives an insight to the daily life 

 and doings of a boy and youth. My 

 advice to every boy, is to keep a diary; 

 and though it may seem crude to an 



