. The Saturday evening post. 9HH Wvloy Braver Remained, Mnodlly Silent, Ay Hit Post 6 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST November IS, 1920. » » The Lake Was Drowsy: the Measured Flash of Beavers Paddle Blade Had a Hypnotic Effect end of afternoon, placid, a haze enveloped the woodedbanks, the circular islands and shining water and gave tothe stillness a dreamlike immaterial quality hardly brokenby the dip of the cedar paddle that lifted the canoe for-ward. Across the lake there was an opening in the woods;emerald fields reached smoothly back to groves again bluein shadow. On the right, where the shore
. The Saturday evening post. 9HH Wvloy Braver Remained, Mnodlly Silent, Ay Hit Post 6 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST November IS, 1920. » » The Lake Was Drowsy: the Measured Flash of Beavers Paddle Blade Had a Hypnotic Effect end of afternoon, placid, a haze enveloped the woodedbanks, the circular islands and shining water and gave tothe stillness a dreamlike immaterial quality hardly brokenby the dip of the cedar paddle that lifted the canoe for-ward. Across the lake there was an opening in the woods;emerald fields reached smoothly back to groves again bluein shadow. On the right, where the shore was near, thewater was at once black and transparent; rock plungedstarkly into cool, deceptive depths; and shallow indenta-tions were spread with the broad floating leaves and yellowbuds of water lilies. A fish jumped with a silver splash, leaving wideningripples, and a swimming loon, its head only visible, raiseda sudden cry like a demented being, a laughing that endedin a prolonged series of cynical inhuman chuckles. Itstartled Lynn Graves; and his subconscious reflex move-ment upset the tranquillity, the equilibrium, of
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