comes to the from the to find its way down all the little and streams into the brook and that consequently the water in the brook will be highest a short time after the rain is over in one place the water had the banks of the brook and had spread all about under the trees which thus seemed to be growing out of a pond the rock which had observed in the morning the torrent was now wholly imder water and the stream showed no indication of its presence except by a ripple the boys noticed these things as they passed but they hastened along to the dam to see what were the appearances there they could see no traces of the dam whatever the water swept over the place in one overwhelming and unbroken torrent the boys stood upon the bank a few minutes looking on in silence and yet with great interest until at length james said � it is all carried away isn t it i don t know answered it has been carried away or whether it is bu there � deep imder water but the the the could not be covered with water water and so if the dam was there still we should see the tops of the did not reply but he considered james s reasoning as then said he after a short pause the and the board have all gone down stream together and that s the end of our dam however he continued at any rate if we have not got a dam we have got a and we will sail some ships down so the boys left in the wagon in a place where ho could see pretty well and they began to into the water sticks of wood and poles and little logs and other such floating as could find around there and then they amused themselves in watching them as they were borne swiftly away down the stream sometimes dashing first against one bank and then against the other sometimes shooting straight forward along the middle of the current and now and then plunging headlong down a or a in this sport they followed the stream down for some distance until called out t them not to leave him so far behind bo the boys left in the wagon � page the new york public library foundations a l and then they went back to him and after about an hour returned home the next day came again to look at the brook and he found that the water had subsided nearly to its accustomed level he proceeded immediately to the site of the dam and found that there were no traces of it remaining whatever except the two little cuts in the bank where had inserted the two ends of the board the water was slowly along the sandy bed of the brook taking its own course and looking as if it was saying to between these banks i choose to have my own way about a month after this as james and were at work among the bushes at a considerable distance below where the dam had been built james suddenly stopped cutting and said with a loud sigh � o dear me i am tired i wish had a good place to sit down well said we ll look about and find a log or something o here is a board meaning up against these bushes he and james went to get the board and jo their utter astonishment they found that g it was the identical board which liad into the dam they knew it by the and holes they got it out from the place in the bushes where it had been caught and made a seat of it and this was the end of their dam as for the and the narrow board they never saw any thing of them again thus their dam was first by the pressure of the water in the brook and then afterwards carried wholly away by its what effect did expect would be produced by the and the consequent rising of the water in the brook which would the force of the jet really depend upon the quantity of water flowing in the brook or the height of the water the dam what were the appearances of the brook when first went down when he went down the second time did he expect to find the water higher or not so high why did he expect to find it not so high how was it in fact why was it higher after the rain was oyer what was the appearance at the dam was the board carried away by the pressure or by the of the water what is f relate th� circumstances under which they found the board chapter xi s lecture one day and were sent away by s father about eight miles into a neighboring town in a wagon to get some apples of a particular kind called the cherry from their color they bought them of a farmer they went early in the day because they had to gather the apples themselves from the trees and had to climb up into the trees with baskets and take oflf the apples one by one to prevent their being bruised � for s father wanted to keep them all winter about four o clock they had finished gathering the apples they put them into three great bags which they put into the wagon behind the seat they put in some straw first to prevent the apples getting bruised by the of the wagon lu k two apples for himself to eat by thi way and so they set out for home they went on very for some time but at length when they were about five miles from home down came the back of the wagon to the ground with a violent shock 