TWO YOUNG NATURALISTS. 203 



" You already knew this, so that, as I said, I 

 have really not much to teach you about the mam- 

 malia." 



They now reached Villers, and the horse and car- 

 riage, pretty well bespattered with mud, were returned 



BEAVERS AND TIIEIK DWELLINGS. 



to their owner, and our friends at once went back to 

 the cottage. 



Through the open window of the workroom they 

 perceived barometer No. 2, which, it will be recol- 

 lected, had been an object of mockery and vituperation 

 to Eene when they were starting. 



