.THE WALKS ABROAD 



OF 



TWO YOUNG NATURALISTS. 



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The reader is introduced to several persons whom he will frequently meet 

 with in this narrative Doctor Bob and his son Mutual anxieties Leon 

 and Rene ; dissimilar but affectionate The arrival Black Thecottage 

 The newcomer promises to completely belie certain unpleasant anticipa- 

 tions. 



" Is the train from Trouville signalled ? " 



" Not yet, Doctor, but the Paris express has reached 

 Trouville, and in a quarter of an hour, or twenty 

 minutes at most, your travellers will be here." 



" That will give me time to look at the cuttings 

 you have just made, and perhaps I shall be able to 

 find in them some interesting fossils neglected by the 

 navvies ; supposing, sir, that you have no objection," 

 said a young man who accompanied the doctor, and 

 judging from the resemblance between them, evidently 

 his son. 



This conversation took place on the 18th of August. 

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