Those of our readers who may have read "Camping Out," the first volume of the "Camping-Out Series," will probably recall the circumstance of the graphite lode, and the manner in which it was left to Raed to dispose of.

As the reason was too far advanced at the time of his negotiations with the unknown gentlemen to permit of a trip to Katahdin that fall, the whole affair was postponed till the following spring.
On the 27th of April, Raed set out for Bangor.

At Portland, Me., he was joined by the gentlemen (their names we are not at liberty to give); and at Bangor Kit met the party.

Thence they went up to the mountain, where they had no difficulty in rediscovering the lode.

That the examination was satisfactory will be seen from the first chapter of young Burleigh's narrative, which we subjoin.