1 86 INTO THE PARK. 
they discovered ! Leaves, sticks, stones, frag- 
ments of all kinds of small wearing apparel ; not 
only Mr. Maxwell’s sock, but pieces of many 
others, purloined from former victims ; every- 
thing but Mrs. Maxwell’s own property. 
“ Well,” said Mr. Maxwell, as they lifted the 
last board, “ I think you will have to give up 
now.” 
“ By no means,” she replied. “ There is the 
loft over the lean-to. I’ll have a candle, and ex- 
plore that.” 
She did, and found all that Dr. Coues mentions 
in the appendix, and also her own property and a 
handkerchief belonging to Miss E , the other 
lady in the party. 
^HE trip into the Park, just referred to, was one 
fcK of particular interest from the territory ex- 
plored and the number of valuable additions 
made by it to the museum. 
The party at first consisted of Mr. and Mrs. 
Maxwell, an editor and his son, and a Miss 
E . Mr. Maxwell took the baggage, and 
went over the toll-roads, while the rest of the 
party, on horseback, tried the merits of a new 
pass, proposing to meet him at Willow creek, in 
the Park. 
Leaving Mr. Maxwell at Nederland, a little 
