Being Saturday afternoon the men were not working, so they had the place to themselves, and wandered about examining heaps of shale, and tapping likely-looking stones with their hammers.

Garnet and Winona knew nothing of geology, so they listened with due meekness while the instructed few discoursed learnedly on palaeozoic rocks, stratified conglomerates and quartzites.

They rejoiced with Miss Lever, however, when she secured a fairly intact belemnite.

It was the only good find they had, though some of the girls got broken bits of fossil shells.
"The fact is one needs a whole day to hunt about in this quarry, and my watch tells me we ought to be going," said Miss Lever.

"Who feels inclined for tea ?" Everybody felt very much disposed, so the procession started off cheerfully for the farm close by, and the nature-lovers were soon hard at work consuming platefuls of bread and butter, jars of jam, and piles of plum cake.
"Sixteen varieties of wild flowers, seven various specimens of fungi, nine different sorts of berries, twelve species of birds noticed, also rabbits and squirrel, one bird's nest and one perfect fossil--not a bad record for an autumn foray!" said Linda, proudly consulting her note-book.
"Especially when you remember we're well on in November!" added Annie.
"It will be something to enter in the League minutes book." "I'm afraid it's the last ramble we shall get this year," said Miss Lever, "but I've one or two nice little schemes on hand for the spring, so the League must look forward to next April.