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I perceived the truth of his words and I confess to a sinking of the heart, as I conte, it addles my head; and, bad as it appeared by day, surely doubly bad would it prove by night Yet there was little help for it, and I e by more cheerful speech "Odds, but that is no such trip as I would seek after, yet needs must if the devil drives," I said "So, now, brother Cairnes, if you wilt consent to divide your store of food, we shall both front our night's ith stronger bodies"

"Saints' rest! and if we go over the edge," he replied, cheerfully e pockets on the rock, "it will be a coainstas possible over our e each other and indulging in frequent draughts fro occurred to disturb us, and, finally, both yielded to the soothing influence of the drowsy evening, and, resting back upon the rocks, dropped asleep I know not the hour of reeted by the sight of a nearly full ht flooded the rocks, revealing the winding path leading upward To arouse Cairnes was no easy task, but at last we advanced on our path The huge rocks overhead appeared to arch us in, while, with ute, which at times was level, and anon rose abruptly like the steps of a stair; occasionally it wound about projecting rocks and over vast, unknown depths, until ed the sht, and felt cautiously forward for solid foothold

I iressed thus for upwards of three or four hundred yards, and were elevated so far above the stream that scarcely an echo of its noise assailed our ears even in the silence of the night, when suddenly we came to the end of our path The rocky shelf was so narrow the very conception of turning about s to the very edge, stretched a solid wall of rock My eyes sank to the shelf on which I stood Lying close against the sheer cliff was the root of a tree, its trunk, perhaps a foot orover the abyss, whose depth I durst not guess I stooped cautiously,the bark