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in near-by streams. Independent as savages and 

 liappier than kings, such voyagers as these may, at 

 trifling expense, enjoy the days and weeks of vaca- 

 tion; the elders renewing their youth and their zest 

 in hving through such care-free and wholesome 

 existence, the chikh-en learning lessons in self- 

 reliance, and expanding the love of nature and 

 animal life in a thoroughly interesting school, where 

 practice is possible, and precept may be vividly illus- 

 trated. Once tried, such trips are eagerly repeated, 

 and one's caravan becomes a summer haven, lacking 

 in none of the home attributes but that of a perma- 

 nent hearthstone, and, with its homely Lares and 

 Penates, beloved as an abiding-place of happy hours 

 and of tender memories. 



