The Riverman - Classic Reprint Author:Stewart Edward White I — THE time was the year 1872 , and the place a bend — in the river above a long pond term ina ting in a — dam. Beyond this dam, and on a flat lower than — I it, stood a two-story mill structure. Save for a small, stumpdotted — dearing, and the road that led from it, all else was — forest. Here in the bottom-lands, following the course of — the stream... more », the hardwoods grew dense, their uppermost
branches just beginning to spray out in the first green of
spring. Farther back, wh~rc the hjgher lands arose from
the swamp, could be discerned the graceful frond of white
pines and hemlock, and the sturdy tops of Norways and
spruce.
A strong wind blew up the length of the pond. It ruf~
fled the surface of the water, swooping down in fan-shaped,
scurrying cat's~paws, turning the dark-blue surface as one
turns the nap of velvet. At the upper end of the pond it
even succeeded in raisin~ quite respectable wavelets, which
lap lap lap ped eagerly against a barrier of floating Jogs
that filled
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