. The brook book; a first acquaintance with the brook and its inhabitants through the changing year. Natural history. 174 THE BROOK BOOK opposite the brook. A fringe of willows, inter- spersed with the silvery foliage of the buffalo berry, leaned over the water. It was a wide stream, and so shallow that my rubber boots were quite unnecessary, as I stepped from stone to stone. But in mid- stream the strong current had cut out a narrow channel, and I paused just where it jumped down into a dark pool. Three pieces of granite thrust their noses out of the water above this little Niagara, and they
. The brook book; a first acquaintance with the brook and its inhabitants through the changing year. Natural history. 174 THE BROOK BOOK opposite the brook. A fringe of willows, inter- spersed with the silvery foliage of the buffalo berry, leaned over the water. It was a wide stream, and so shallow that my rubber boots were quite unnecessary, as I stepped from stone to stone. But in mid- stream the strong current had cut out a narrow channel, and I paused just where it jumped down into a dark pool. Three pieces of granite thrust their noses out of the water above this little Niagara, and they looked so stable that I relied upon them. With a foot on each of the highest two, I cast my line val- iantly from me, up stream ! I knew in a moment that that was the wrong way, for the current bore my grass- hopper right back. An eddy curled it in behind a rock, where it seemed to catch on something. Be- fore I could make a move to disentangle it, a thrill, the like of which I had never felt before, reached my nerve centers, via the pole I It was none of. "the whisk of a finned tail". Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Miller, Mary Farrand (Rogers), Mrs. , 1868-. New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
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