CHAPTER XXIII.
APPLES OF GOLD.
Shakespeare's play of "As You Like It" is an eulogy of the flight from the highly formal life of city life to the simplicity of the forest and the retirement of the plains.

Even in the banished Duke, there is a strain of oddity and quaintness.

Not many years after the middle of last century, a Detroit lawyer fled from the troubles of society and city life to the peaceful plains of secluded Assiniboia.

Marrying, after his arrival, a daughter of one of our best native families, and on her death, a pure Indian woman, he reared a large family.

The poetic spirit of Frank Larned was never repressed, and we give, with some changes, to suit our purpose, and at times some divergence from the views expressed, scenes of the Red River Settlement, in which he, for more than a generation, dwelt.
BRITAIN'S ONE UTOPIA--SELKIRKIA.
That brave old Englishman, Thomas More--afterwards, unhappily for his head--Lord High Chancellor of England--wrote out, in fair Latin,--in his chambers in the City of London, over three centuries ago--his idea of an Utopia.