It is old, old, is it not?
Tell me, who was the wise man who described all this to you ?" "Not a stranger to this very country, I imagine," was my answer.

"He spent some years here in Oregon with the missionaries, engaged, as he informed me, in classifying the butterflies of this new region.

A German scientist, I think, and seemingly a man of breeding." "If I were left to guess," she broke out suddenly, "I would say it must have been this same old man who told you about the plans of the Canadian land expedition to this country." "Continually, Madam, we find much in common.

At least we both know that the Canadian expedition started west.

Tell me, when will it arrive on the Columbia ?" "It will never arrive.