Wild scenes and wild hunters of the world . ust be accounted themost magnificently beautiful, ^o imagination can compassthe exceeding grace and airy freedom of the arched andsilken-tossing chaos, as it sways to and fro, glistening inbeamy mail beneath the sun, while sportively unconscious ofobservation. How grandly they plunge, curvette and wrestle,wheel like trained columns, charge, scatter and form again *in the. swift change of magic convolutions, shifting like cloudshadows eddied on an April breeze along the grass, as swift,if not as fleeting ! So they appear from the distance, at which th
Wild scenes and wild hunters of the world . ust be accounted themost magnificently beautiful, ^o imagination can compassthe exceeding grace and airy freedom of the arched andsilken-tossing chaos, as it sways to and fro, glistening inbeamy mail beneath the sun, while sportively unconscious ofobservation. How grandly they plunge, curvette and wrestle,wheel like trained columns, charge, scatter and form again *in the. swift change of magic convolutions, shifting like cloudshadows eddied on an April breeze along the grass, as swift,if not as fleeting ! So they appear from the distance, at which they can alonebe viewed, as in our sketch. Sometimes I have come uponthem suddenly amidst the motts of timber; wheji the mo-mentary, but nearer view, would disclose the mottled varietyof their coats to which I have referred; but most usuallythey are seen in swift battalions, scurrying across the plains,and stopping for a moment, on the last undulation, for aparting look at the intruder, cluster with flying hair againstthe sky, and are gone !. CHAPTER XX. A birds-eye view of the speclater. Turn we now to the northward, for our Wild Sceneshave lingered long upon the green and waving Plains thatshimmer in the breezy sunshine of the mellow South. Wehave felt the slumbering electricity in its treacherous air jarus through smiles, and amidst its fierce extremes of beautyand of terror, realized something of the wild unexpectednessof action peculiar to life amidst the latent power of suchfierce elements, as there do mostly congregate. The Hunter-Naturalist—like an invisible Presence—has walked with us amidst these scenes, informing the 472 WILD LAKES OF THE ARIONDACK. 473 Spirit of them all witli this most gossip and desultorymood in which our volume was at first conceived. A summers journey of sporting adventure towards theNorth, dating at a much later period in my life than thosepreviously given as personal, included a sojourn amongstthat linked and wonderful cluster of Lakes, exte
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