CHARLEY'S V/ONDERFUL J aU R N E Y. 



SHE was a good deal older than Charley, 

 but she looked so nice with her light 

 golden locks dancing about her head, that 

 he went up without any hesitation, and asked 

 her to let him look through her telescope. 



Then Charley looked to the west and saw 

 the Rocky Mountains, and could have staid 

 an hour looking at the buffaloes and geysers 

 in the Yellowstone Park, and enjoying the 

 scenery of that charming region. Then he 

 turned round and looked to the east, and 

 saw the great ships sailing and steaming 

 over the Atlantic Ocean, and saw the waves 

 rising and falling so plainly that he almost 

 thought he could hear the ocean's roar. 



Then the girl took the telescope and 

 turned it round, and told him to look through 

 the other end. 



Charley saw a littte house like a doll's 

 house, far, far away in the distance, and 

 near it a lovely little team of horses and a 

 plow, with a little mite of a man driving 

 them and holding the plow. 



The horses were all alive, but no bigger 

 than mice, and the man was small in pro- 

 portion. 



Charley would never have been tired of 

 looking through the wrong end of the tele- 

 scope; he turned round and round, and saw 

 little cows, and little, little sheep and dogs 

 and little men, all far away, but still he 

 could see them all quite plainly. 



Then the girl took the telescope and told 

 Charley to look for the house, and the team 

 of horses and the cows and sheep, but there 

 was neither house nor living thing in sight. 



"That is because you looked at them 

 through the wrong end of the magic tele- 

 scope," said the girl, "they are so small you 

 cannot see them with the naked eye, and 

 they will remain so until I look at them 

 through the other end again." 



Then she looked through the telescope. 



and Charley saw the house and the farmer 

 and his team just as big as ever, and as she 

 turned slowly around, cattle and sheep and 

 men came into view again. 



*'I have to look very carefully," she said, 

 "because if I were to .leave a horse or a man 

 so very, very small, some prowling cat 

 might run off with it and eat it." 



"Now let me look at you through the 

 small end," said she, laughing. 



"Oh, please don't," said Charley, "I don't 

 want to be far away from you and very, 

 very small." 



Charley heard her laugh but he couldn't 

 see her; he was in a jungle of large reeds, 

 straight and jointed, and just fit for fishing 

 poles. They must be bamboos, thought 

 Charley, as he went on walking through the 

 jungle, and adm_iring the reeds with their 

 feathery tops, until he came to an open 

 place in the forest, in which grew the most 

 wonderful tree that Charley had ever seen. 

 It was a strawberry tree as high as a man, 

 and with great round strawberries bigger 

 than Charley's head 



Charley bent down the stem and got hold 

 of the lowest fruit by the stalk, it was the 

 ripest of the strawberries, and its smell was 

 so fragrant that it almost intoxicated him. 

 He got hold of the stalk with both hands, 

 and was steadying the strawberry for a 

 good bite, when he saw a sight that startled 

 him. 



He knew it was an ant, but it was as big 

 as a bulldog. Its skin was like polished 

 black metal, and its great jaws, like a lob- 

 ster's, were working to and fro, as if they 

 wanted something or somebody to lay hold 

 of and tear in pieces. He looked down- 

 right fierce, and although Charley was a 

 brave boy, he let go the strawberry and 

 sprang backward. He didn't know where 

 the stick came from, but he had it in his 



