The Ponds
in
ter, and ting out ice in the forenoon, and had
resolved t in ternoon, he aid of his neighbors, he
ake out the ice
to over and along and out on to the ice
, before he had gone far in his work, he was surprised
to find t it umps of the
brancing doened in the
sandy bottom. It a foot in diameter at the big end, and
ed to get a good sa it ten as to be
fit only for fuel, if for t. in hen.
tt. he
t t it migree on t was
finally bloo ter top had become
er-logged, ill dry and light, had
drifted out and sunk wrong end up. y years old,
could not remember tty large logs
may still be seen lying on ttom, he
undulation of ter snakes in
motion.
t, for there is
little in it to tempt a fisead of te lily, which
requires mud, or t flag, the blue flag (Iris
versicolor) groer, rising from tony
bottom all around t is visited by hummingbirds in
June; and ts bluiss flowers and
especially tions, is in singular he
glaucous er.
e Pond and alden are great crystals on the
eart. If tly congealed, and
small enougo be clutchey would, perchance, be carried off
by slaves, like precious stones, to adorn t
being liquid, and ample, and secured to us and our successors
forever, er the diamond of Kohinoor.
too pure to value; tain no muck. how
muciful transparent