Show Though it is many years ago the memory of it is and I need but close my eyes and see it all again the peak begirt the towering mountains in front and the rugged cliffs in the back-P We were on a hunting trip and had stumbled upon a miniature sea something like ten t thousand feet above sea in the heart of a forest of mighty r peaks in the It lay like t an amethyst in a setting of so blue were its so green its except on the h southeast where the rugged cliffs rose from the water's We christened it Antler from two pairs of locked horns which lay partly buried on one mute witnesses of a bygone forest As a total eclipse of the moon was about to we decided to remain and witness it from this picturesque We rowed to the southeast side of the lake about 8 The in undimmed flooded mountains and The which rise in perpendicular were in darkest and the which farther out glinted and was here black and The shadow was relieved on the i west by a mellow flood of which softened and transformed the peaks and pine-clad hills into a landscape of almost dream-like The mountain which came tumbling down to the lake in madcap was changed by the magic of the moonbeams to a tor- rent of liquid which flashed wondrous white as it dashed from the cliffs The northern side of the little basin which sloped down to the grassy bank was enveloped in a web of woven moon laying over it soft and undefined as the weave of a fairy As we rowed out from the somber pall of the overhanging the full moon was just entering the As its light grew an awed silence settled down like some great hovering Even the which had been whispering through the hid hushed and The which are never ceased to and all the myriad life their shade breathless and A subtle change seemed working the waters of the lake looked dark and the rushing cataract fell a river of strange and The woods and mountains held us like an elfland garden which the gods vouchsafed to Our spirits could not but feel the mystery of the almost fearful husli which bound all- nature in its and no word was uttered we watched the wonder in the just as the veiled went into total we were startled by the unearthly cry of a mountain Scream after scream rang and echoed from cliff to hill to till the woods seemed filled by a demon At with a drawn out cry of agonized terror which ended in a trembling the beast was and stillness reigned once broken only by our beating J. LLOYD M. D. |