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"¦^rVnl'leBl" cried dinlifiiKor in e.u ecstasy. "I've .soph thom in tht; \A'eal doti I'laj'. It l.s a rreiitiiri' w.nlkijip erect upon three toed feet uml ocifi- slon.illy putlinK one of lt.s flve Angered forep.'iws upon the gronnd. Not ri bird, my dijir Itoxton—not ii bird."
"A Ijenst?"
"No; a reptile—a dinosaur. N'othlnn else conld havo left sucii a track. They pu'/.zled a worthy Sussex doctor somo  ninety  years apo.     But  who  In
ever be onr nliyhtiiiare.    I^t me set down exactly whnt occurred.
We rmssed rery slowly throiiRh the \vo(m1«, purtly because lord Itoxton noted (IS wont bofore he would let ns advance nnd partly becBuse at every second step one or other of our profes¬ sors vvrnild full, with a cry of wonder, 11 I tiefnro some flower or Insect whk-li pro I senterl hini wtth a new type. We may linvc traveled two or three miles In all, keoplriK to the rlslit of the line of thi' siroarn. when we rame upon a oonstd- o-Mble oiioninir In the trees. .\ belt of tinishwood led up to a tangle of rooks. The whole pl.Ttenu was strewn with tiowlders. We wore walking slowly tu ward these ro<'ks, among bushes which roaoliod rjver our waists, when we be¬ came aware of a straiiKo, low gabblin.'; and wliistline sound, whloh filled tho air with fl oiuistant clanioi' .•ind ap- penrod tri como frnm some spot Iniine- lilately boforo u.s. Lord .lohn hold up his hand e.s h sknal for us to .sto|i. and he mado his w.'iy swiftly, stoopinu' ami rnnnlne, to tlie lino of rooks. We saw hini [leeti over thom und give a gesture of iimazoment. Then h(.' stood stariiig as If forgottin'r us. so utterly ontrani'ed was he by what lie saw. Finally he waved us to oonie on. Iioiding up his hand as a signal for caution. Ilis whole bearing made me fool that soinotliing Very wonderful, but dangerous, lay be¬ fore us.
Oreeplng to his side, we looked over the rocks.    Tho phu'e Into  which   we
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the world  couM  havo hoped—hoped— to have seen a sight like thatV
His words diod away into a whisper, and we all stood in motionless arna/e- ment. Following tho traoks, we had left the morass and passeil tlirough a screen of brushwood nnd trees. Be- jond was an open glade, and in this Were tlve of the most e.xtraordlnary creatures that 1 have ever seen. Grouching down nmong the bushes. We ob.served them at our leisure.
There wore, a*; 1 xay. five of them, two lieing adults aiKl three young ones. In size they wer<' enormous. Eveii the bablee w»re as t>lg as elephants, while the two large ono« were far lie¬ yond all creatures I have ever seen.. They hart slate colored skin, which was  scaled  liko  a   lizard's   and  shim
gazed was « pit and may In the early days have lifK'u ono of the smaller vol¬ canic blowholes of the plateau. It wa.s bowl shaped, and at the bottom, some hundreds of yards from where wo lay. were pools of green soummod. stagnant water, fringed with bullnislies. It was a weird place In Itself, but Its oo- cupants made It soem like a scene from the "Seven ("iioles of Dante.*" The place was a rofikei-y of ptor'idac tyls. There were liundre<ls of them congregated within view. All the bot¬ tom area aronnd the water odge was sHve wtth thflr young ones and with bldeons mothers lirooding upon thoir leathery, y«llnwl«(h eggs. Frora thU crawling, f1a[iplng mass of unoiean rep¬ tilian life cnme thi- sho<'klng clamor which fllled the air and the mephlfi.
mm up ann rusnea among tne crunss. Onoe there we were safe, for those huge wings hud no spaoe for their sweep beneath the branohes. As we limped hoiiiowjird. sadly luaulod and disoomfited, we saw them for a long time tlying at a grent height agjiinsl the deeii blue sky above our heads soaring round and round, no bigger than wood jilgeons. with their eyes no doubt still following our progress. At ladt, however, as we ronohod the thick¬ er woods they gave up the ohaso. and we saw them no more.
".\ most interesting and oonvhioing cxperlonoe." said Challenger us we halted beside the brook and he bathed a swollen knee. "We are exception¬ ally well Informed. Summerlee. as to the habits of the enraged ptorodai'tyl.'"
Sunimerlce was wiping the blood from a out In his forehead, wliile I wa^ tying up a n.'isty stab In tho inUH'-le o! the neck. Lord .lohn had the shoulder of hl« <'oat torn away, but the crea¬ ture's teoth had only grazed the flesh.
"It is worth noting." t'hallenger con¬ tinued, "that our young friend tias re¬ ceived an undoubted stab, while Lord ,Iohn"s coat could only have been torn liy a bite. In my own cuse. I was beaten about the head liy their wings, so we have had a remarkable exhibi¬ tion of their various methods of of feiise."
"It has been tom-h and go for oui- lives." said Lord .tohn u-mvotv "o.,,i ! I could cot think of a more rotten sort j of deaih than to be outed by suoh { filthy vermin. I was sorry to flre rny j rifle, but, by .love, there was no great ! choice!"' I
"We should not be here If you i hadn't,'' said I, with conviction. j
"It may do no harm." said he. "Among these woikIs thero must lie many loud cracks from splitting or falling trees whioh would ije Just like the sound of a gun. But now. If you ¦re of my opinion, we hn\o had thrills enough for one day and had best get back to the surgical box at the camp for some carbolic. Who knows wliaf  enom these liesitg may have in their hideous JawH?"
That night (oar third In Maple Whit.,- Lend) we had an experieiioe which left   a   fearful   Impression   upon   our
lai^'and rifli vomnne<l as the exnaust or an engine, spoke of a monstrous organ Isin. Once as It moved I thought I saw the glint of two terrible greenish i eyes. Thore was an uneasy rustling, as If It were orawllng slowly forward. "I believe It 1>^ going to spring!'" said I, cooking my rifle.
"I>on"t flre. don't flre!" whispered Lord .lohn. "The orash of a gun In tills sUent night would bo heard for miles. Keep it as a last card."
"If It gets over the heclge we"re done,'" said Summerlee. and his voico cracklcfl Into a nervous luugh as he spoke.
".No. It must not get over," cried Lord .lohn, "but hold your fire to the last. Perhaps I can make something of the fellow.   I'll ohanee It. anyhow."
It was as brave an a^t as ever I saw a mnn do. lie stooped to the flre. phk- ed aii-ti blazing branoh and slipped In nn Instant through n sallyport whloh he hnd m.ade In our gateway. The thing moved forward with a dreadful snarl. Lord .lotin never lieslliitod; liiit. running towanl it with a (iiii.k. lighi step, ho d:ishei1 the flaming wood Into
j the hrute"s face.    For one moment  1
I had a vision of a horrible mask 1" giant toad"s, of n warty, ieiiro::
' and of a loo.se mouth all t ¦
! with fresh blood.    Tho next
j a   ornsh   in   the   uiiderwoo
I droiidfull visitor was gone.
j    "I thonght he wouldn't face the flre
I eaid Lord John, luughing, as he ca;.
I back utid thre^v his branoh among ti.
I fagots.
j     "You should not bnve taken suoh a !
' risk!"" we all cried.
"There was nothing else to be done.
I If he had got amfiiig us we should have
j shot each other in trA-ing to down bim.
j On   the  other   hnnd.   if  we   hiid   fired
¦ through  the  liedgi he would soon have been on the top of ns, to sny nothing of glvhic ourselves
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1 orjserveu, winte or yellow in ouinr theso boing, as our professors explain ed, the primitive fiower shadas In many pla<es the ground was absoluto Iy covered with them, and as we walk ed anklo deep on that wonderful yield Ing oarpet the S' ent was almost liitoi Icating in its sweetness nnd Intensity The homely Knglish hee buzzed every¬ where around us. .Many of the trees under which we passed had their liranoh«s bowed down with fruit, some of t,vli'tnh wore of familiar sortfl, while other varieties were new. By observ ing whlrh of thom were pecked by the birds w" iViMod all dnngor of poison and  ;i 'iliclotis  variety  to our
food I' !n the jungle which we
fraversofi were numerous hard trodden
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'\  111"   wild beasts, and In
"es we saw a pro
itinarks, includin:;
don.     Once  In   a
several  of  these
-'razing, and Lord Johi;
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in  the morn-
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long,  f urved  tusks, break   In   the   trees.
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Once,  through a
we   saw   a   clear
mered   where  the sun  shone  upon  It.    horrible, musty odor whioh turned us ; rnlnds nnd made u.s thankful that Lord! All   flve   were   sitting   up,   balancing ! sick.    But  above,  perohed  ench  upon    John  had  worked so hard in  inakhi- themselves upon'thoir broad, powerful [Its own stone, tall, gray anrt withered. I °tir   rotp-nt   impregnable.     We   werr tails  and   their  bugO  three  toed  hind ! more  like   dend   and  dried   speolmens ' all sleeping round our dvi.-lg fire when ¦ feet,   while   with  their  sninll   Hve  fln   ^ than  aotual   living  creatures,   snt  the , '^e ^^'ce nroused, or. rather.  I should^
horrible   males,   absolutelv   motionless i "a.^-  »*'"'f  f>"t  of  our  sbinibcr"   by  a\ save for tlie rolling of their red eves or ' succession of the most frightful cries i
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gered front feet they pulled down tho
branches upon which they browsed.    I
do not know thnt I oan bring their ap
pearance home to you b(;tler than by
¦aying thnt they looked like monstrous
kangaroos, twenty feet In length, and
with skins like black crocodiles.
We saw the shiinuicrlug slaty gleam
I ot their skins between the tree trunks
¦ and their heads undulating high above
] the  brushwood.    Thin   they   vanished
j. j from our sight.
^ I I looked at my comrades. Lord John was standing at gaze with his flnger on the trigger of his elephant gun, his eager hunter's sonl shining from his fierce eyea. What would he not give for one such head to place botween the two crossed oars above tho man¬ telpiece In his snuggery at the Albanyl And yet his reason held him In, for all our exploration of the wonders of this unknown land depended upon our presence tieing concealed from its In. habitants. The two professors were In silent ecstasy. In their eicltement ^ they had unconsciously seized each 3t other by the hand and stood like two Uttle children In the presence of a marvel, Ohallenger'.s obeeks bunched up Into a seraphic smile and Summer¬ lee's sardonic face softening for the moment Into wonder and reverence.
"Num- dlmlttlal" he cried at last. "¦What wtll they gay In Kngland of this?'"
"My dear Summerlee. I will tell you with   great   confldence   exactly   what they  wil! say In  Kngland." said Chal¬ lenger.    "Thei-  wlil  say  that you  aro an Infernal liar and a selentlflc charla¬ tan, exactly as you and others said of me." "In the face of photographs?" "Fake<1.  Suminerleel    fhimslly ed!" "In the faci» of specimens?"' ".\h. there we mny bave them! lone and  his  filthy   Fleet  streot crew may   be  all   yelping   our   pral.ses   yi-t Angtist the liSth—the day we saw fivo live  tguanodons  In  a  gla<le  of  Maple White   Land.     I'ut   It   down   In   your diary, my young friend, and send It to your rag."'
"And be ready to get the toe end of the editorial boot In return." .said I^jnl John. "Things look a bit difTerent from the Intltude of London. .Mmng fellah my lad. There's many a man who never tells his adventures, for ho can't ho|ie to be believed. Who's to i blame thetn'.- Tor this will seem a bit ! of a dream to ourselves In u montli or two.   What did you say they were?"
"liniMiiiidons." said Siinmierlee. "Vou will find their footmarks all over tho IIastln;.;s sands In Kent and In Susso.k. The south of Englnnd was alive with them when there was plenty of good lush groen stufr to keep theni going, ('oiuliiiiuis havo cliani;(>d. and tho beasts died. Here tt seems that tho condllions have not rhnnced. nnd tho beast^ haye lived."
"If ever we gel out of this allvo I must have a head with nio,'" said l.ol-d John. "Lord, how some of that Soma lllaiid-Ugantla    crowd    would    turu    a
an occnslonn! snap of the rattrap beaks as a dragon fly went past them. Their huge membranous wln;:s were closed by folding their forenrms. ko that they snt like gigantic old women, wrapried In hideous web colored shawls, and with tiielr ferocious heads protruding ahove them. Large and small, not less thnn a thou-^and of these filthy creatures lay in the hollow before us.
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CHAPTER XIII. A  Prohiatoric Tragedy. n.\LI.EN<;ER.  bent   upon prov¬ ing some point which Summer- Ice   had   contested,   thrust   his head over the rook and nearly
and   screams   to   which   I   have   ever : listened.    I kimw  no sound  to  which i I could compare this amazing tumult, I whloh seemed to oome from some spot wUhln   a   f(«w   hundred  yanis  of  onr camp.    It va.s as ear splitting as any : whistle of a railway otigliie, but where ; as the whistle is a clonr. nuvhanioal. sharp edged sound this was far deep er in volume nnd \ ibrant with the ut- j termost  strain   of  agony   and   horror We clapped our hands to our ears to I shut   out  thnt  nen-e  shaking  appeal. ! A cold .sweat liroke out over my body. : nnd ray heart turned sick at the misery i of it.    .VU the woes of tortured life, all I its    .stupendous    Indictment    of    high } heaven. It-s Innumerable .sorrows, seem¬ ed to be oenverod and condensed into
He Dashed the Flaming Wood  Into the Brute's  Face.
away. On the wholo, i think that we are Jolly well ant of it. What was he. then?""
Our lenrned men looked at e,\ci\ otiier with some hesitation.
"Personally 1 am unable to classify the creature vrith any certainty." said Summerlee. Ilshtlng his pipe from tin- fire.
"In refusing to oomniit yourself you are but showing a proper selentlflc re¬ serve." said Challenger, with mas.sive condescension. "I am not myself pre¬ pared to go further thau to say In gen¬ eral terms th.'it we have almost cer¬ tainly been in contaot tonight with some form of carnivorous dinosaur. I havo already expressed my anticip;i- tlon that something of the sort might exist upon this plateau."
In the morning it  was not long he the clrole closed In upon us until the ; while all the foliai.'o rustled with  the | ^°^^ '^'^ discovered the souri'e of the
rising of startled birds.    Then it shut \ hldeou.s uproar which had aroused us off as suddenly as It tiegan.    For a long ' ^ f'"* u'lrhr.   The Iguanodon glade was
brought destruction upon us all.    In an ' tJiat one dreadful, agonized cry.    And Instant the neareat mnle gave a shrill. whistling cry and  flapped its twenty foot span of leathery wings ns It soar¬ ed up Into the sir.
'THake for the woo^i and keep togeth¬ er," cried Lord John, olnbbtng his rifle "The brutes mean mischief."
The moment w-e attempted to retreat
then under this high pitched, ringing sound there was another, more inter¬ mittent, a low, deeti chested laugh, a growllnc. throaty srurgle of merriment which formed a groti s.pie accompani ment to the shiiek with which It was blended. For three or four minutes on  eud  the fearsome duet continued.
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: time we sat In horrified silence.    Then j fjortl   .lohii   threw   a   bundle   of  twigs I upon the tire,  nnd their red glare iit j np the Intent fnoes of my oompanlons land   flickered   over   the  great   boughs 1 above our lioads. i    "Wliat wns It?" I whispered. I    "We   shall   know   In   the   morning. " ¦ said Lord .John.    "It was dose to us -not fnrtiior thnn the gl.-ide."' "We   have   been  prlvlloged  to  over hear a prelilstoric tragedy, the sort of drama    which    occurred    among    the reeds upon the bonlor of some jurassi ¦ lagoon,  when  the groater dragon pin ned the lesser among tbe slime.'" said Challenger,  with more solemnity than I hnd over heard In his voice.   "It was surely well for man that he came lato in the order of creation.    There wero powers abroad  In  earlier days   whi'h no courage f,iid no mechanism of his eould have met.    What could his sling. his thriiwing stick or his arrow avail hltn against such forces as have'been
¦houlder of green hill some distance md wounded him ! a'way. and across tbis a large dun col- ' ored animal was traveling at a consid¬ erable paoe. It Jiassed so swiftly that we were unable to say what It was, but if it were a door, as was claimed by I>*ird John, it must have been as large as thuso monstrous Irleh elk which are still due up from time to time In the bogs of my native land.
Ever since the mysterious visit which had been paid to our camp we always returned to it with some mis¬ givings. However, on this occaslrin we found everyt'iing in order.
It was aViout tais time tbat I had an inspiration. My eyes chanced to light upon the enormous gnarled trunk of the glngko tree which oast Its huge branches over us. Surely If Its iKile exceeded thnt of all others its height must do the same. If the rim of the plateau was indeed tho highest point, then why sho:'^ ¦' ¦ -''ghty tree not prove to tie a ;¦ which com¬
manded the v;i',i- I ountry? Now, ever since I ran wild as a lad lu Ire- ¦ land I Lave been a bold and sk'lled tree climber. .My comrades might be my masters on the rocks, but I knew that I would be supreme among those branehes. Could I only get my legs on to the lowest of the giant offshoots then It woHld lie strange Indeed If I conld not mako my way to the top. My comrades wore delighted at my Idea.
"Our young friend." said Challenger bunching   up   the   ."ed   apples   of   hia cheeks,  "is capalile of hi robatic exer¬ tions which would l>e impogeible to g I man   of   more   solid   though   posslldy of a more commanding ajipearance.    1 I applaud his resolution." I    "By r;e>irge. young fellah, you'veput I your hand on it!" said Lord John, clap- ; ping me on the back.   "IIow we never 1 came to think of it before I can't Im- ; aglne.   There's not more than an hour I of daylight left,  but if you tako your notebook you may be able to get some rough sketch of the plai'e.    If we put theso   three  ammunition   cases   under the  branch  I  will  soon  hoist you  on fo it." He stood on the boxes while I faced
j the .scene of a horrible butchery. From ' the pools of blood and the enormous ' lumps of flesh scattered In everj- di- ¦ rection over the greensward we Im¬ agined at first that a number of ani- ; mals had been killed, but on examining i the remains more closelv we dlscov- I ered that all this carnage cnme from .'^^'^ f"'"'' "'"' "''"* K''"tl.v raising uie ! one of these unwieldy monsters, which i "^^^^ Challenger sprang forward and i had been literally torn to pieces hy : S*'^^' ""^ *"""'' « thrust with his huge 'some creature not larger, perhaps, but \^^^^ "'-i' '»^ ''"''"'.v shot me Into the ^ far more ferocious, than Itself. i *'''^-     ^^''"'   '"^"i   '"^^   clasping   Ihe
i Our two profes.sors sat In atisoibed j ^'"a^" '>¦ ' scrambled hard with my feet ' argument, ovamlning pieop after pice. I ^^t" I had workod. first my tH>dy and : which   showed   the   marks   of   savage   "'**" ™>  knees, on to It.    There were
teeth and of enormous claws.
"Our Judgment must still be In abeyance," said Professor Chnllenger. with a huge slab of whitish colored flesh across his knee. "The indica tlons would be consistent with the pre-sence of a saber toothed tiger, such as are still found among the breoda of our caverns, but the creature actu¬ ally seen WHS undoubtedly of a larger and more reptilian clinracter.    Person
The Circle  Closed  In  Upon  Ue.
tips of the whigB of those nearest to ua nearly touchod our faces. We beat at them with the stocks of our guns, but there wus nothing solid or vulnerable to strike.' Thon suddenly out of the whl/.zlng, slate colored circle a long ueck shot out and a fierce beak made a thrust at us. .\nother and another followed. Summerlee gave a cry and put Ills hnnd to his face, frora whloh the blcod uns streaming. I felt a pnul at the baok of my neck and turned tti/. «y with the shiH'k. Chpllenger fell and as 1 slooped to pl'k him up 1 was •gain struck from behind aud dropped on the top of hliu. At the same Instan' I heard fhe crash of Ix>r\l John's ele phant gun iii;d. looking up, saw one of
loose tonight?    Even  with  a modoni   ally 1 should pronouns forallosaurus."
rifle It would be all odds on  tbe m"n ster."
"I thinS I should back my Uttlo friend '" .^ald Lord John, caressinc his express. ••»ut the beast would cer¬ tainly hnve a goml sporting chance "
Summerlee raised his hnnd.
"Tlusli!"   he   oriod      •'S'lro!'    ' something."
Frotn tho utter silence there eio.c; ..i c a deep, regular pnt. pnt.    It wi-    i tread of snme anima!—the rh
"Or megalosaurus," .said Summerlee. "Exnctly.     Any   one   of   the   larger
three excellent offshoots, like huge rungs of a ladder, above my head and a tangle of ciiiivei:iont branches be¬ yond, so that I clambered onward with such speed that I soon lost sight of the groimd and had nothing but foli¬ age beneath me. Xow and then I en¬ countered a oh(>ck, nnd once I had to shin up a «-reeper for eight or ten feet, but I made excellent progress, and the booming of Challenger's volc« seemed to l .¦ .i gxeaf distance beneath me The f •¦ wa-s, however, enor¬ mous, and, looking upward. I could see
carnivorous dinosaurs would meot the   ""^ thinning of  the  leaves  above  my
beautiful pea green If tney saw It!    I ! the creatures with n broken whig stnig
don't know what you chaps think, bin it strikes me that we are on mighty thin Ico all this time."
It   was  destined   that   (ui   this   very murnlng-our first In the new country —we   wero  to  flnd  out   what  strange bar.ardii lay around ns.    It wns a loath¬ some adventure and  ono of  whloh  1 hnte to think.    If, as Lonl John snid. ! tho  glade  of  the  Ignanodons   will   re I matn with us as a dream, then suroiy i thu swiiiiHv of llio uterodHctvIa wtll for
gllng   upon   the   ground,   spitting   inid gurgling at us with a wide oi)etiod beak and bloodshot, goggled eyes, like gome Ue^il in a nioiliaeval picture.    Its com rades had fiown higher at the suddeu   der through the gap.    Yes. 1 oould sec
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1 stooped
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and peered ovi-
j sound and were ciroling above us. I    "Now,"  crtiHl   Lord John,   "now   for i our lives!"
j    We   staggereil   through   the   bmsh
I wood and even as we reache<r'the trees
j the  harpies  were on us again.    Sum
nierloo uas knocked down. Inil we tool.
tree there was a deeper shadow yot. black, liicloate. vygue a crouchlii;.' form fnll of savage *'l.:ror and mena. o It was no biuher th*n a horse, but tic dim outline sui;gesied vast bulk and Streni-'th.     Thai   lii,is|in.' luiiil    as  reiru
case.    Among  them are to he  found all the ino^t  terrible types of animal life that h.ave ever cursed the earth or blessed a museum."   He laughed sono¬ rously at Ws ,iwn conceit, for, though he had little .sense of humor, the cnid- est pleasantry from his own lips m ^ ed him  ah\ a.vs  to roars of appre> tlon. "The less noise th^ Jietter," nald I.fir !
ped oat
to the east i i
the  west.     I:
try  wus slill riiickly woe lod.  '.
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CHAPTER  XlV. ,   For Once I Wee the Hero. II.WE dwelt nil lo now upon tb. tenors of .Maple White Land, lc there was unothor side to the so jec(, t'or all that moruing we wan ib'red among lovelv flowers, mostlv. as
head. There was some thick, bushlike clump which seemed to tie a parasite upon a branoh up which I wns swarm ing. I leaned tny head round it In or¬ der to see what wa« beyond, and I nearly fell out of tlie tree in my stu- r-i-^o «...d horror at what I saw. To be Continued J
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tld sons Enr' i. >me on  Tuoh- spending a woek at Urod with   the   former's     par- .Mr. and Mrs   Edwin  Hoffner and    Mrs.    Thomas    Hllden¬ brandt and daugher Kathryn  Tl.'ilted ^!-  and Mrs. Wiilbim Kahler, at Na/.- 'on Sunday
and Mrm. Il.iiv, y llaugenhnch aud daughter .Mabel visited Mr anc' .Mrs. Ilc.rley Werner, on Sunday