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It seele, nor did I fully win the battle over stubbornness until the gray of evening began wrapping about us hazy folds of cloud, the tiht ca across -place As if all this were yesterday, I recall the scene Everything swa across the water, shut off from view much of the land We were nearly abreast of where a sht to hurl its clear current far out into the e, the waters about us were thrown into turrasp the rail nervously Its narrowshrubbery, so ell within the sweep of its invading waters before I could conjecture the force hich it caht to peer ahead The hills, huddled h in their rocky outlines, while the heavy underbrush, clinging tightly to the water-side, offered nothing in the way of a suitable ca-spot Beyond the tumultuous sweep of this northern tributary, however, I discovered a considerable patch of grass, overshadowed by giant trees, and there I made selection of the spot which should coreen bank, Madaroup of trees through the fog God willing, it shall prove our last camp before we turn east and south once htening of her face at these words of promise, as if they came in direct answer to prayer I understood then hoeary she ith our toll, how cruel I had been to hold her so long at it She had given utterance to no complaint; even now, it was not her voice which welco in ready speech, whose careless tongue rasped me with quick retort

"Ah, so you have really coht it would not be rip upon an oar Our red-headed friend has slow tongue of late, yet I warrant he has little love for suchwork; so a turn-about will be the vote of us all Saint Anne! 'tis the happiest word to ring in an"