etimes all the men in a family, for generations, will be sailors,
even if their parents have planned something else for them. The sea is
in their blood, and it calls them."

"Sometimes I think the mountains are calling me just that way," said
Bessie. "But I never really understood that before."

"It's the same way with mountaineers. The Swiss are never really happy
except among their mountains. And that's true of every mountainous
race. The people who live along the Mississippi, here, and along the
Don and the Vistula, and the other great rivers in Russia, never seem
to be able to live happily unless they can see the great river rolling
by their homes every day. If they go far away they get homesick."

"I'm not a bit like that!" exclaimed Dolly. "One place is just as good
as another for me, if I like the people. I like to travel and see new
places. I'd like to be on the move all the time."

"I think a great many Americans are getting to be that way," said
Eleanor, reflectively. "It's natural, in a way, you see. For
generations the young men and women have been moving on, from settled
parts of the country to new land, where there were greater
opportunities to make a fortune."

"I've read about that," said Dolly. "You mean like the people from New
England, who went west to Oregon and Washington?"

"Yes. But that can't go on forever, you see, because about all the new
land is taken up and settled now. Of course, out in the far west,
there's still room for people; lots and lots of room. But this whole
country is settled now. Law and order have been established about
everywhere. And we'll begin to settle down soon, and our people will
love their homes, and the places where they were born, just as the
Virginians and the other Southerners do now."

"Oh, it isn't that I don't like my own home!" said Dolly. "If I were
away from it very long I know I'd get dreadfully homesick, and want to
go back. But I don't want to stay there or anywhere else all the time."

"You're a wanderer," laughed Eleanor. "That's what's the matter with
you, Dolly. You want to see everything that's to be seen. Well, I'm a
little that way myself. When I was a little bit of a kiddie I always
got tremendously excited if we were going on a journey. I guess it's a
pretty good thing, really, that we are that way. It's the reason this
country has grown so wonderfully, that spirit of enterprise and
adventure. That's what made the