CHAETER XVI. 
HIGHER AND BRIGHTER, OR THE FIRST 
AERIAL ROUND. 
OOME professional duties having required 
the absence of Doctor Dean, there was an 
interruption of the weekly conversations, and 
the young men were left to spend their time as 
they felt disposed, which they did with rod, 
gun, and sketch-books, making extensive ram¬ 
bles through the neighboring forests. On Mr. 
Dean’s return he found that the work had so 
far advanced at the brown cottage that it was 
now ready to receive its new owners. Hence 
it became one of his most agreeable duties to 
apprise them of their good-fortune, and to in¬ 
form them that a few of the neighbors would 
come on the following day to move them into 
their new home. We shall leave it to the im¬ 
agination of the reader to picture the surprise 
and joy which this news carried to the poor 
sufferers across the lake. Sufficient to state 
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