Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-05-27
'I've lived twenty years Swt466a|
1.-THE world. I'll not goss back n.

i've lived twenty gyeat. S,yea
The tn. wo rid y I'll not ggoss back !.
but, mothAssifa we lust keen u
this way. youslGs-youil-he hesifat Il
at the mex word dnally.let.itsfaiil :
Die, 'sshee seemed to- fonn,.l
word. ~ small thing-to diSi;syfs
n musing as IL she .fnund
melancholy c~ornfortFin thu fbnt,ahf 4
But I shan't die" she ns.s
with 9 hasty glance up: at his ~
NY IS worse today because 4
medicine ts gone" - 4
The young man started. . fsso M i
You Selecampane. gomez. Il NA
~ 1ook the last Of It yesterday.
He went to the cook stove and
|lifted the saucer from a small lar ~
when tne roots were usually stepped
great tenderness in this Nj
came back and bent lover her chair -
You shall have Your elecan.Dane
tea" ne said, !!'if the roots ara 10 he]
found In the Flatwoods: ana vor]
shall sleep tonight in the Old eaahin
up there under the cool trees" = u
A ripple Of pleased expectation. n
nalI-aWakened Interest, broke the
" u l40, weary fACH-ikn
a faint glow back Of a curtain +has
never raises.
lie rehlled the cup with. cool VIZ
tier, rummaged a spade out of .thad
locker under the forward decks anT
was just on the point Of leap}Ik -
n pank when he heard her sDea&l
ing. He poked his head back inEdsSl
the curtains and she repeated, what
Ff "ISntt fho%B E1ot-oo5n ~ III
Wild Man lives? Seems to me +. once
heard that there is such. mar n
these. woods" "a -
He felt carelessly along the rustJ
bit Of the spade with this thumb
II believe this is the woods.
MAYBE he's-I mean-he's nod
d~apgerous?" - - -, |
Dangerous! A gray ghost Q a
man with a pitiful face. They saw nd
goes through the woods as still AZ
smoke, n leaves as little trail"
A minute later he h~adSaIeaned
ashore, sprung up the slope. crossed
the branch tumbling along anone
the rocks from the waterfall to the
river, climbed the bluffs, and plunE7
ed into the deep woods: n.
The root Of the elecampane was
mucn esteemed as a remedy for
abundant. No one knew this fac1
better than the Pearlhunter. ~
He a never searched for tho
plant n the Flatwoods: in, fact, hid
had never tramped through these
wood at all. He had not gone far
before their virgin completeness be-
gan to impress him. No tree r.
known an u. The forest lay just a
the Indians had left it. Buried in itd
depths the world with its selfshness!
its little spites and %jealousics, be-
comes a dim unhealthy. Face to face
with unwarped nature strangely
brings man face to lace with MIN
self. There areno shams in the
woods A man stands for what he is,
III there's meanness in his heart, he
can not live comfortably. in the pres1
ence Of majestic trees. The river and
little else, but he did know them
They were to him as the chart to thd
sailor; the blue print to the, builder. \
The small stream hat feeds th@
waterfall at Fallen Rock-fs known al
Wolf Run. Following up along i'll
course the Pearlhunter kresentl3
came to a tiny thread Of water thai
Joined it from the west-probably> tha
outlet Of some small pond tucked
open margins OF swamps and pSandi
and never in the thick woods, tina
the elecampane grows. Believin
from the warmth and dullness Of il
water that the tiny stream came froi
q pond, rather than from a sprin
the Pearlhunter followed It. small}
and smaller it grew as he trudgd
{ along its b~ank,anever more than
foot or 50 in:fwidth. and ssometim
almost losing itself among the leav{
1t had grown SO small indeed THU
the Pearlhunter began to fear
would disappear altogether, Wild
There came a break in the forest lin
just ahead. A scramble through
Dense fringe Of hazel, and there
lay--a little pond in the midst ef (
narrow glade in a pocket, of the Hills
a delicate inlay in tho forest; a tint
and very exquisite picture, with il
frame of flag and rushes, its ms
strip of skung-cabbage, at the hear
a glimmering little pane of clear wan
ter. .as.fE s
A bullfrog pumped into the p1j
as he approached; a shitepoke. flod =
dered up out of the flag and walton
ed away into>the woods as IL the eh4
ormously distended Adams apppe in
his throat unbalanced his awkward
"aa (COntfn1rod m Do0o Q II