I would hardly like myself, for the sake of a few extra pounds taxes, to sell my birthright as an Englishman." "Conceive," said Alice, "being in some great European city, and being asked if you were British, having to say, No!" They were coming through the lower pass, and turned to look back on the beautiful rock-walled amphitheatre, sleeping peaceful and still under the afternoon sun.

The next time (so it happened) that Sam and Jim looked at that scene together, was under very different circumstances.
Now the fronds of the ferntrees were scarce moved in the summer's breeze, and all was silent as the grave.

They saw it again;--when every fern tuft blazed with musketry, and the ancient cliffs echoed with the shouts of fighting, and the screams of dying men and horses.
"It is very early," said Alice.

"Let us ride to the left, and see the great waterfall you speak of, Jim." It was agreed.

Instead of going home they turned through the forest, and debouched on the plains about two miles above Garoopna, and, holding their course to the river, came to it at a place where a great trap dike, crossing, formed a waterfall, over which the river, now full with melting snow, fell in magnificent confusion.