red. He was so bright
that the whole world was beginning to wonder at him. France got jealous
of America's keeping such a great man. So Napoleon offered him a high
office and great honors; but Louis said "No," adding courageously: "I'd
rather have the gratitude of a _free_ people than the patronage of
Emperors!"

The city of Zurich begged him to return.

"No," he wrote, "I cannot. I love America too well!"

Then the city of Paris urged him to be at the head of their Natural
History Museum, but this was no use, either. Nothing could win Louis
Agassiz away from America.

At Harvard College Agassiz was made professor of natural history, and
there is to-day at Cambridge a museum of zoology, the largest of its
kind in the world, which Agassiz founded and built. At his home in
Cambridge the professor still kept strange pets, quite as he used to do
when a boy. Visitors to his garden never knew when they might step on a
live turtle, or when they might come suddenly upon an alligator, an
eagle, or a timid rabbit.

The precious dream of going to Brazil came true when Louis Agassiz was
fifty years old. With a party of seventeen and his wife, he went on an
exploring expedition to South America. It was a great adventure.

Agassiz had been to many cold countries and had slept on glaciers night
after night, with only a single blanket under him, but never in his life
had he been in the tropics.

When Agassiz arrived in South America, Don Pedro, the Emperor of
Brazil, was glad to see the man who was known as a famous scientist and
heaped all kinds of honors upon him. Better than all, he helped Agassiz
get into many out-of-the-way places.

If you want to know about a fish that has four eyes, about dragon-flies
that are flaming crimson and green, and floating islands that are as
large as a school playground, yet go sailing along like a ship, bearing
birds, deer, and wild looking jaguars, read: _A Journey to Brazil_ by
Professor and Mrs. Agassiz.

When you have heard the story of all these strange things, you will
agree that Louis Agassiz did certainly know how to keep his eyes open.

DOROTHEA LYNDE DIX

Doctor Elisha Dix of Orange Court, Boston, was never happier than when
his pet grandchild, little Dorothea Dix, came to visit his wife and
himself. Every morning he had to drive about the city, in his
old-fashioned chaise, to see how the sick people were getting along, and
he did love to have Dorothea sitting beside h