Woods and waters: . down through like a streak o lightnin. Harvey urged the boat slowly along, while I gazed atthe rock lifting its stern front from the lake four score feetin height. Its length of three hundred feet was curvedlike an enormous half-moon bastion. There was a littlecove at its lower extremity darkened by dense the mass heaved rounding onward, with large boul-ders at its base, their summits plumed with seams furrowed its black and grey sides from top tobase. In the clefts of its enormous ledges—cracked andsplintered and scaled with lichen—tottering
Woods and waters: . down through like a streak o lightnin. Harvey urged the boat slowly along, while I gazed atthe rock lifting its stern front from the lake four score feetin height. Its length of three hundred feet was curvedlike an enormous half-moon bastion. There was a littlecove at its lower extremity darkened by dense the mass heaved rounding onward, with large boul-ders at its base, their summits plumed with seams furrowed its black and grey sides from top tobase. In the clefts of its enormous ledges—cracked andsplintered and scaled with lichen—tottering pines hadclutched their claw-like roots, and in nooks and on plat-forms, bushes had clustered and spruces planted their darkspear heads. The rock was also broken into severalsteep profiles, and its head was a smooth, iron-like precipice,rounding downwards to the lake. All along its summit hdead pines stretched their jagged arms and reared theirrjwithered antlers. There was a deer jumped right from the top o that. OK, THE SAEANACS AND BACKET. 183 rock onst, said Harvey dipping a birch bark cup anddrinking. From the top of that rock, Harvey ? Twas a curous thing, but twas so, replied Harvey. Twas one afternoon in August, jest afore sundown, Willand me and Cort was campin on the lake on one o theTwo Brothers. There was two or three bys in the lakeagin this ere Pulpit which wed bin baitin fur some time,and theyd got to be fust best places far lake trout. Well,one day, about sundown, as I said afore. Will and Cortwas there fishin at the bys, one in one boat and one inanother. Will was right under the Pulpit, and had jestketched an all-fired big trout; well, cordin tb his tell, it mustha bin a trout weighiji nigh about five pounds, and had akinder riz up to rest himself, and was a lookin right at thetop o the rock. All on a sudden, an almighty big buck,with horns like a rockin-chair, bust up to the top, andsprung, and fell kersplosh inter the lake. He put to t,and both Will and C
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