"I'll tell you what," said Paddock, "I've now been all about the cataract, and seen it at all points. I've hit upon the very name, I think. What say you to the Falls of the Bounding Deer?" "But where's the Deer?" grumbled Jobson, now thoroughly out of humor from the contempt with which his last observation had been treated. "Do be quiet, Mr. Jobson," chimed in the girls, "and let us hear what Mr. Paddock urges in favor of his beautiful name." "See," said Paddock, pointing upward, "see where the upper Fall bounds from yon dark cleft of rock, and, gathering itself in that basin for another effort, gives another leap down its path, and then, gathering itself once more in the lower basin, shoots away to the protecting woods!" "Capital name! Just the thing, Mr. Paddock!" again broke out the chorus of girls, like a dangling of silver bells. "The Falls of the Bounding Deer be it then!" The name being thus satisfactorily settled, we all commenced scrutinizing more closely the lovely lair of the "Bounding Deer." A dazzling display of tints was on the thickly mantling trees, changing the whole scene into a gorgeous spectacle. The most striking contrasts--the richest colors glowing side by side, flashed upon the delighted vision every where. The elm dripping with golden foliage from head to foot, in a way which only that most beautiful tree can show (the drooping naiad of the brook), shone beside the maple in a splendid flush of scarlet--the birch, garbed in the richest orange, bent near the pine gleaming with emerald--the beech displayed its tanny mantle by the dogwood robed in deepest purple, whilst every nook, crevice, shelf, and hollow of the umber banks and gray rocks blazed with yellow golden rods and sky-blue asters. How beautiful, how radiant, how glorious, the American foliage in autumn! No pen, unless dipped in rainbows, can do it justice. And, amidst this brilliant beauty, down her pointed rocks, down flashed the "Bounding Deer," white with the foam of her eager and headlong speed. The boys now prepare for another excursion amongst the rocks of the "Falls."