The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1876-02-03
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The sau has sunk entirely from view.
All is as still aud mute as natures
hand can make H. Not ripple dis.
turbs The surface Of the waters. Slow
~ aud noiselessly the thin edged pad
die, welded by an arm at the stern,
pushed Us along.
DO yea see that point that projects
out into the lake twenty rods before
us We are a going TO round it. We
are rounding il now.
Clio. who is sitting in the bow, aris.
ing from her seat catches the first
glance beyond. There they are !
See them jump The water is alive
with them
How her eyes glisIen as she stands
in tho bow Of that caaoe There's
true fire ia them But be calm, girl,
they are yours. score Of them
shall feel the nerve in your arm before
we return. This day Is yours.
4 fcw careful strokes further for.
ward and we are shot into a little cove
into which the narrow inlet empties
itself Of the thousand rills that il has
gathered from the mountain sides; jut-
ting far inland and losing itself under
the thick underground Of the shore
that bend over their branches aud their
foliage to kiss the surface Of the rival
waters.
pehild us the lake rests as smooth
and CLASSY as though shut up in huge
goblet. But all before us the still
surface is broken by continued series
% nppling eddies that entwine and
lose themselves amid each other There
Is goH there that requires only a
skillful hand and heart bounding 70
Natures impulses, 70 draw out
Picking up and adjusting the light
and silyer-lerruled rod / reluctantly
il might as well be confessed place
Il IA her greedy hand Nor is it the
Grst time that she has touched it.
With a firm and steady grasp, she
seizes the but The string Of flies, as
II rejoicing ID their freedom, dart from
her hand, for a moment circle over her
head then spring gracefully forward
ard aligh, thirty feet ahead 10 the
midst Of the ruhled waters. Slowly
they ale drawn io--no jump. Again
Do they bound into the air. and again
arc they tossed forward 20 whence
they came. But while they hover a
yard above tie surface, the water be.
meath them parts aud before the
tempting feathers Of the leader are
dipped o. moisened. they are securely
lodged 10 the huge mouth Of one Of the
nob.e 8rwagas 4 tie lake.
NOT Is he unmatched Scarcely a,
the waters close over the gap, ere th,
sharp twang Of the gut tells that bel
quick eye aud ready nerve ha,
struck him fall and square
With eager and excited glance. our
eyea are aKed upon the place Whene,
be has disappeArcd--wAtchiag the liz,
az IT gradually strAightens out A
second q suspense when the tig
qaivers then begins 70 bend. He hai
collected himself and has now taken ii
tAa situation. Whir.rrr.r goes ,hr
reel lie Is going 20 ~ who vii
prevail
Straight for the opposite shore b.
saoots--.ike race horse proudly
graudly Bat when hundred iee
away aad twcaGy feet beneath Ia
waters. ho aagnly and sullchly stops
and "a ever widening circles dAshe
round AID round 10th 70 submit 10
s5ycry thread 50 aghi iha, !, would
uAea free, aoat a~ay ike a thistli
down il The breeze
on, ye woul4.be sporissncn whi
wiIl clmb 81 three miles the rocks ans
tbe fcaoes l. Jerk oat uPon the baul