Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . oofs and tripped them as they moved; but theynever faltered. When they reached the toll-gate on JacksonsRiver, nine miles from their starting-place, the storm raged with 140 PORTE CRAYON AND HIS COUSINS. unabated fury. The toll-gatlierer begged them not to persist inthe attempt to cross Morriss Hill. The road was blocked up soas to be impassable. A man had made the attempt that morningon horseback, and had returned. We will try it. En avanV Good luck to you, stranger, shouted
Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . oofs and tripped them as they moved; but theynever faltered. When they reached the toll-gate on JacksonsRiver, nine miles from their starting-place, the storm raged with 140 PORTE CRAYON AND HIS COUSINS. unabated fury. The toll-gatlierer begged them not to persist inthe attempt to cross Morriss Hill. The road was blocked up soas to be impassable. A man had made the attempt that morningon horseback, and had returned. We will try it. En avanV Good luck to you, stranger, shouted the gate-keeper, hurry-insr into the house. As they slowly toiled up the mountain the scene opened in allits wildness. The North Wind, not then the blustering braggart,came down upon them in his might. The downy-cushioned earthand woods gave back no echo to the sound of his rushing wings,but with silent energy and hissing malignity he drove the drift-ing clouds before him; now blinding men and horses with theshowering flakes ; now revealing in a long, wintry vista the un-broken highway and snow-encumbered DIFFICULTIES. THE FIGHT ON MORRISS HILL. X41 Sometimes the young groAvth was bowed from either side untilthe tops, interlocking in the centre, formed a snowy archway overthe road. Then our adventurers would dash through, helter-skel-ter, and find themselves half buried in the avalanche from theshaken trees. Sometimes, through erring judgment, the rush wouldprove a failure, and they would be brought up standing, with theirequipage so entangled in tree-tops and grape-vines that it was nec-essary to open the passage with their knives. Frequently treeswere found lying across the way, as if forbidding their fartherprogress. Then Mice would descend, and, setting his ponderousstrength against the obstacle, would roll it from the road, and passon. When they encountered a tree too much for their strength,then, by deftly combining art with force, they would bend thelimbs one b
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