I had a desire that some place in our island might be dedicated to Ernest, and I now present you the _Grotto Ernestine_." "And after all," said Jack, "it will make a pretty dwelling for the first of us that marries." "Silence, little giddy-pate," said I; "where do you expect to find a wife in this island?
Do you think you shall discover one among the rocks, as your brothers have discovered the grotto?
But tell me, Fritz, what directed you here." "Our good star, father," said he.

"Ernest and I were walking round these rocks, and talking of his wish for a resting-place for my mother on her way to the garden.

He projected a tent; but the path was too narrow to admit it; and the rock, heated by the sun, was like a stove.

We were considering what we should do, when I saw on the summit of the rock a very beautiful little unknown quadruped.

From its form I should have taken it for a young chamois, if I had been in Switzerland; but Ernest reminded me that the chamois was peculiar to cold countries, and he thought it was a gazelle or antelope; probably the gazelle of Guinea or Java, called by naturalists the chevrotain.