An illustrated history of Skagit and Snohomish Counties; their people, their commerce and their resources, with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington .. . Tridio-ix -/McCro/?j <Johi) Cor Helms vS^NiMilc/AW tJoi. vi no w ~ J) I )lo)\. IN SKAGIT CCJUNTV Tf;K NfcW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY SKAGIT COUNTY, 1889-97 157 maiden of the forest, whose supple limbs had been marredby the heat of thirteen summers, and whose cheeks wereuncaressed by aught save the gentle zephyrs. Deeply im-pressed by her visible charms of person, and being of ahold and venturesome spirit, he then and
An illustrated history of Skagit and Snohomish Counties; their people, their commerce and their resources, with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington .. . Tridio-ix -/McCro/?j <Johi) Cor Helms vS^NiMilc/AW tJoi. vi no w ~ J) I )lo)\. IN SKAGIT CCJUNTV Tf;K NfcW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY SKAGIT COUNTY, 1889-97 157 maiden of the forest, whose supple limbs had been marredby the heat of thirteen summers, and whose cheeks wereuncaressed by aught save the gentle zephyrs. Deeply im-pressed by her visible charms of person, and being of ahold and venturesome spirit, he then and there resolved tohave her for his own. He made a liberal offer, but she,modest maiden, not considering it a good plan to yieldtoo readily, rejected with seeming disdain his amorousintention. He returned to his lonely ranch on the Skagit,there to devise strategems new to encompass his end. Heheard sweetly guttural accents in the sighing of the wind,?nd in the floating mist he even beheld her voluptuousform. Later on, with a retinue consisting of two noblered men from Snehosh—ah, the music of these Indiannames—he set out to visit his sable enchantress at herhome upon the tir-clad hillside of the Swinomish reser-vation near the banks of the murmuring slou
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