ROUND ABOUT CHICAGO 



Swimming makes one hungrier than dabbling; 

 so stop in good time, and going back to the edge 

 of the wood, where is the great sweeping view, have 

 the lunch ready to spread at sight of the returning 

 swimmers. 



The town of Sag has fallen into decrepitude. 



If you have an 

 old time-table you 

 will find on it Sag 

 Bridge, and the 

 change in name 

 gives a clew to the 

 decadence of the 

 town. Once upon 

 a time, before the 

 Drainage upheaval, 

 there was a bridge 

 here across the his- 

 toric Illinois and 

 Michigan canal and the Desplaines river, and an 

 important road across the valley. But every great 

 improvement brings its small catastrophes. The 

 bridge is gone and the glory of Sag has departed. 

 The big boy went scouting to see if in any way 

 we might get sight of the drainage canal, and 

 returned triumphant, but a most curious spectacle. 

 For he was covered from collar to shoes with a 



