110 BUFFALO LAND. 



Sachem thought that the couple might have been 

 an ancient Paul and Virginia telling their love on the 

 shores of the old-time lake. 



The Professor continued: "You notice close beside 

 the two imprints an oval, rather deep hole in the 

 rock, precisely like that a boy often makes by whirl- 

 ing on one heel in the sand." 



Sachem again interrupted : " Perhaps the maiden 

 went through the fascinating evolution of revolving 

 her body while her mind revolved the 'yes ' or ' no ' 

 to her swain's question. It might be a refined way 

 of telling her lover that she was well 'heeled,' and 

 asking if he was." 



The Professor very gravely replied : " In those 

 days the world had not run to slang. If one of No- 

 ah's children had dared to address him with the 

 modern salutation of ' governor,' the venerable patri- 

 arch would have flung his child overboard from the 

 ark. Taking your view of the case, Mr. Sachem, the 

 whirl in the sand, which gave the lover his answer, 

 is telling us to-day that same old story. And the 

 coquette of that remote period caused the tell-tale 

 walk upon the sand, which has proved the greatest 

 geological discovery of modern times. I believe that 

 it will be followed up and sustained by others equally 

 as important, all tending to date man's birth thou- 

 sands of years anterior to the time geology has hith- 

 erto assigned him an existence upon earth." 



We spent many hours of the night in getting the 

 rocks to the depot for shipment to Topeka, the few 

 inhabitants of Bavaria assisting us. Soon after a 



