THE BEAUTIFUL LADDER. 
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move all necessity to toil or danger of want, 
and also to enable you to gratify your tastes for 
travel or society. What has come over you, 
old fellow, to make you look so gloomy with 
such bright prospects before you ? I thought it 
was your intention, as soon as you graduated, to 
travel for a few years for further study and ob¬ 
servation of the world, and then settle down to 
a profession?” 
*‘Yes,” was the reply, *^that was my half- 
formed purpose when I entered upon the last 
year’s study, and I have not entirely given up 
the idea, though I have recently thought of 
making quite a change in my route.” 
Ah, and which way now ?” was the inquiry 
of young Rudolph. Are you going to outdo 
Captain Kane by getting astride of the North 
Pole, or put Stanley into the shade by laying 
out Central Africa into townships?” 
“No, Lew,” was the sober answer, “I do 
not mean to aim at notoriety, as I have rather 
in mind to seek some nook or corner of the 
Rocky Mountains, where I can get as far from 
men and the active world as possible, and 
cultivate the fellowship of grizzly bears and 
buffaloes. That seems to promise more of 
