The boy travellers in the Far East : adventures of two youths ... - Library

there, and tlieu tlioy sprouted
and took root. Tliej make the
pagoda hjok very old, and cer-
tainly that is quite pn.iper, as
they are all of au age that young-
people should respect.
" There is a funny little isl-
and—and not so little, after all,
as it is three hundred feet high
—that stands right iu the mid-
dle of the river at one place.
They call it the Little Orphan
Eock, prohahly because it was
never known to liave an)^ father
or uiother. There is a temple
in the side of the rock, as if a
niche had been cut to receive
it. Fred thinks the people who
live there ought not to complain
of their ventilation and drain-
age ; and if they fell out of the
front windows by any accident,
A ROCKY ISLAND. 337
4. M>b STJI ILt 1 vroi \
they would not be worth much when picked np. Away np on the top
of the rock there is a little temple that would make a capital light-house,
LITTLE URI'IHN KOCK.