. Wit bought, or, A New York boy's adventures when the empire state was young . It was surrounded on three sides by tallcliffs, whose dark, shaggy forms, in contrast,gave a silver brilliancy and beauty to themirror-like water that lay at their feet. Theother side of the lake was bounded by a WIT BOUGHT. sandy space, of small extent, in the centreof which stood a lofty tree. The objects that first presented them-selves, as we approached the lake, were awoodpecker sounding his watchmans rattleon the dry limb of a tree that projectedover the water, by way of warning to the tenants of the moun-tai
. Wit bought, or, A New York boy's adventures when the empire state was young . It was surrounded on three sides by tallcliffs, whose dark, shaggy forms, in contrast,gave a silver brilliancy and beauty to themirror-like water that lay at their feet. Theother side of the lake was bounded by a WIT BOUGHT. sandy space, of small extent, in the centreof which stood a lofty tree. The objects that first presented them-selves, as we approached the lake, were awoodpecker sounding his watchmans rattleon the dry limb of a tree that projectedover the water, by way of warning to the tenants of the moun-tain that danger wasnear; a heron, stand-ing half-leg deep inthe margin of thewater, and seemingto be lost in a lazydream; a pair of har-lequin ducks thatwere swimming nearthe opposite shore;and a bald eagle, thatthe point of a rock which pro-jected a few feet outof the water near the centre of the lake. It was a time of feeling, rather than ofspeech. Neither my companion nor myselfspoke of the beauty of that scene at the. THE HERON. 43 time; but we felt it deeply, and memory,to me, has kept a faithful transcript of thathour. We had not advanced far, when, on pass-ing through some bushes near a heap ofrocks, I heard a rustling in the leaves.
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