twisting and
struggling in the fierce tide, and at last slid off astern and floated
away down-stream.

A foot above the water was a large knot and a swell in the trunk of the
tree. Teddy climbed above this, and sat astride of it, clasping the
trunk in his arms. He was at first inclined to treat the accident with
bravado, and he waved a hand above his head and shouted; but the sight
of Reddy floating towards the rapids froze his utterance and paralyzed
his arm.

It was plainly impossible for his comrade to swim to the shore--he was
too near the dangerous fall--but he hoped he might reach the jam in the
middle of its crest.

[TO BE CONTINUED.]

AT THE SEA-SIDE.

A Suggestion for a Summer Entertainment.

BY CAROLINE A. CREEVEY AND MARGARET E. SANGSTER.

_CHARACTERS:_

CHARLOTTE HOWARD. GRACE EVERTON.
VICTORIA MASON. HELEN SAYRES.
IDA MOORE. MISS SOMMERFIELD.
OLIVE BRANDON. MISS DAISY JAMES.
MADGE FULLER. CAPTAIN JAKE.

SCENE.--_A summer-house on the beach, in front of the Mattewan
Hotel._

OCCASION.--_A rehearsal for an entertainment to be given in the
hotel parlors for the benefit of the Sea-side Home._

PRESENT.--_Charlotte, Victoria, Ida, Olive, Grace._

_Victoria_. What a perfectly glorious afternoon, girls! The sunshine is
dazzling. The surf is music itself; the sails out yonder are so white;
and the air! I cannot breathe it into my lungs deep enough. There's no
place like the sea-side after all.

_Charlotte_. Mamma is begging papa to take her to the mountains.

_Ida_. Oh, what a shame! Just as we are getting so well acquainted, and
can plan so many nice things to do. It would be wicked for you to leave
us.

_Victoria_. Have you met that new arrival, Miss Daisy James? She's
English, you know. She talks about her boxes, not trunks.

_Olive_. She has luggage, not baggage.

_Ida_. Yes, I was talking to her. She's funny. She says there isn't any
Gulf Stream. Says the Captain of her steamer has sailed for thirty
years, and has never seen it. So, if you please, the Gulf Stream "is a
myth."

_Grace_. She's the most disdainful thing, and uses such queer words! She
says raw clams are "nasty," and she called bananas "those beans."

_Olive_. Perhaps she will improve on acquaintance. We mustn't be too
hard on her.

_Charlotte_. Where are all the girls? We ought to begin our rehearsal.

_Victoria_. There's Madge