Good-by!"
And away went Master Huckleberry, skipping and singing and snapping his
fingers and twirling his cap, until he came to a wide crack in the
ground, when he rolled himself up like a huckleberry dumpling, and went
tumbling and bouncing down into the underground home of the gnomes.
"Get out of the way!" said he to the gnomes he passed, as he proudly
strode to his father's apartments. "I'm going to make a report. For the
first time in my life I've taught somebody something."
When Huckleberry left her, the goose-girl stood silently in the midst
of her geese. Her brow was overcast.
"How's anybody to do two things that can't both be done?" she exclaimed
at last. "I'll have nothing more to do with riddles as long as I live."
HOW SIR WILLIAM PHIPS FOUND THE TREASURE IN THE SEA.
BY S.G.W. BENJAMIN.
There is scarcely anything more exciting to the imagination than tales
of hidden treasure, especially treasure lost at sea. The mystery, the
wonder, the adventure, the tragedy, the seemingly boundless
possibilities connected with riches lost by shipwreck or war, and yet
not gone beyond the hope of recovery, have given rise to a multitude of
romantic stories, some of them pure fictions, but many founded more or
less on fact.
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