. The top of the continent; the story of a cheerful journey through our national parks. acres in our Fair-mount Park, for instance, but more than a thousandsquare miles in Glacier National Park. Gee! exclaimed Jack. It must be a whopperthen, for every square mile has six hundred and fortyacres in it. Oh! said Margaret, appalled. They stopped a 10 THE TOP OF TILE ( OXTIXENT minute to multiply a thousand square miles by sixhundred and forty. Then, continued Uncle Tom, there are otherdifferences. A national park is left just exactly as nature made it. Theydont cut trees or makelawns or put swans
. The top of the continent; the story of a cheerful journey through our national parks. acres in our Fair-mount Park, for instance, but more than a thousandsquare miles in Glacier National Park. Gee! exclaimed Jack. It must be a whopperthen, for every square mile has six hundred and fortyacres in it. Oh! said Margaret, appalled. They stopped a 10 THE TOP OF TILE ( OXTIXENT minute to multiply a thousand square miles by sixhundred and forty. Then, continued Uncle Tom, there are otherdifferences. A national park is left just exactly as nature made it. Theydont cut trees or makelawns or put swans onthe lakes. It is anenormous wild placethat the Governmentleaves just as God de-signed it, because Godmade it so magnificentthat it would be quitespoiled if men tried toimprove it. All wild and moun-tainy and jungly and full of animals? asked Jackexcitedly. Just like that, said Uncle , I must go! Jack exclaimed , here comes Uncle Billy with Dad, saidMother. Ask him to tell you more about the top ofthe continent. The children rushed for Uncle Billy with arms out-. Oh, take us, take us to the top of the con-tinent, dear Uncle Billvl HOW IT HAPPENED 11 stretched, crying: **0h, take us, take us to the top ofthe continent, dear Uncle Bihy ! Uncle Billy and Uncle Tom were twin brothers, butthey did not resemble each other in any respect. UncleBilly was fair-haired and smooth-shaven, round-facedand jolly. Uncle Tom was slender and dark-haired,and wore a tiny young mustache, of which his olderbrother, Mr. Jefferson, made endless sport. He wasquiet and studi- -_ ous. When the ^|k m 1- children wanted J^^^ 4a romp theysought UncleBilly. Whenthey wanted in-formation theyasked UncleTom. AuntJane, by theway, was sister, who was home for the holidays fromher sophomore year at Vassar. What mischief have you been doing here, Tom?asked Uncle Billy when at length he had untangled
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