America ! Q In money matters he was punctilious & ac- LITTLE 

 curate, the result of his early training in making both JOURNEYS 

 ends meet. The habits of thrift, energy, industry and 

 absolute honesty made him a marked man there is 

 not so very much competition along these lines. 

 The maps, drawings, measurements and the exact, 

 short, sharp, military report turned in at regular in- 

 tervals to the Baron won that worthy absolutely. Lin- 

 naeus was a business man as well as a naturalist. 

 It would require a book to tell of the glorious half- 

 gypsy life of these eight young men, moving slowly 

 through woods, across plains, over mountains and 

 meadows, studying soil, rocks, birds, trees and flowers, 

 collecting and making records. Camping at night by 

 flowing streams, awakening with the dawn, cooking 

 breakfast by the camp-fire in a silence that took up 

 their shouts of laughter in surprise, and echoed them 

 back from the neighboring hills ! 



At last the journey was ended. Linnaeus had proved 

 his ability to teach his animation, good cheer and 

 friendly qualities brought his pupils very close to him. 

 Q Reuterholm insisted that he should attach himself 

 to the rising little college at Fahlun. There he met Dr. 

 Moraeus, a man of much worth in a scientific way. 

 At his house Linnaeus made his home. There was a 

 daughter in the household, Sara Elizabeth, tall, slen- 

 der, studious and appreciative. One of the Reuter- 

 holms had courted her, but in vain. 

 There were the usual results, and when Carolus and 

 Sara Elizabeth came to old Dr. Moraeus hand in hand 



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