| Vol. II.—No. 89. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | PRICE FOUR CENTS. |
| Tuesday, July 12, 1881. | Copyright, 1881, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
THE DUNCE'S SEAT.—Drawn by Jessie Curtis Shepherd.A PALACE UNDER THE SEA.
BY DAVID KER.
For any one who wants to take a month's holiday, there are few betterplaces than the islands of Orkney and Shetland and Faroe. They are along way off, to be sure, and in the midst of a very rough sea, thatplays sad tricks with any one who is not a good sailor; but there isplenty to be seen when you once get there. The great black cliffs risingstraight up out of the sea for two or three hundred feet, with thousandsof sea-birds fluttering and screaming around them; and the wide, bleak,gray moorlands, without a single tree to relieve their grimness—for onmost of these Northern islands no trees will