GARIS, HOWARD R. Uncle Wiggily and the Beaver Boys; or, The adventure of the raft boat, and Uncle Wiggily makes a willow whistle.

There is still living in Springfield, Illinois, a man who helped Lincoln at the raft-buildingMr.

There is a bridge across the Memel at the exact spot where the famous raft conference is said to have taken place.

" It was after she had succeeded in keeping him long enough for considerable headway to have been made in raft-construction that he exclaimed: "Katie, will you do something for me?" Her eyes were asking what there could be that she would not do for him.

[Bamboo raft ferry.]

Doubtless the terror of some of their party, in a great measure arose from a vivid recollection of the raft interview, which was likely to dwell long in their minds; at all events, if not of the same party, they had heard of us, and it will readily be believed, that we had been painted in sufficiently terrible and exaggerated colours to render a second interview, in their minds, very undesirable.

The first raft-loads were paddled across with muffled oars.

The conference on the raft appeals to me as one of the most thrilling and yet pitiably human events in all history.

The Ottawa is by no means the only channel in these parts for conveying the produce of the lumberer's toil: there are tributaries innumerable, affording hundreds of miles of raft navigation; so that an almost indefinite field for their labour is open, and years, if not centuries, must elapse before the population can increase sufficiently to effect any very material inroad on these all but inexhaustible forests.