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"Yup, I guess that's how it happened," answered a voice close beside her, and she jumped almost out of her shoes in her surprise, for unconsciously she had spoken her thoughts aloud, and a merry-faced urchin, sprawled in the shade of a low-limbed box-elder, had answered her.
Leighton finished his second cigar, and then tapped Lewis on the shoulder. They slipped beyond the screen of the low-limbed beech, stripped, and stole into the river. At the first thoughtless splash Cellette sprang to her feet. "Ah!" she cried, her eyes lighting, "you bathe, hein?" She started undoing her bodice. Leighton stared at her from the water. "What do you do?" he cried in rapid French.
They circumnavigated Wellesly Island, making short stops at several points of interest and at about 4:30 p.m. tied up in a quiet shelter overhung by a low-limbed tamarack and cast their baited fishhooks into the water for a "brain-food" supper. This was not more than half a mile from the tie-up where they passed their first night in the Thousand Islands.
One evening, when they were seated and idly swinging among the boughs of a low-limbed tree that stood near the house a favorite spot with the girls Dexie suddenly remarked, "Lancy, I am just hungry for a 'sing; do start up something." "Bless you for the thought," Lancy replied, from a distant limb. "I have been wondering these few days back what it was I was missing.
Scent and sight presently were attracted by a feeble fluttering under a low-limbed catalpa tree in whose branches a pair of hysterical robins were screeching. Lad paused, his tulip ears at attention, his plumed tail swaying. Then he pushed his long muzzle through a clump of grass and emerged carrying a flapping and piping morsel between his mighty jaws.
He had no definite idea as to its possibilities. He thought only of it as a curious thing which should be larger. The next day Ab hacked from a low-limbed tree a branch as thick as his finger and about a yard in length, and, first trimming it, bent it as Bark had bent the twig and tied a strong sinew cord across.
As the artillery came up we moved off by the right flank a few steps, to let it come in between us and the Illinois regiment next on our left. Where we were standing was in open, low-limbed oak timber. The line of Southern infantry was in tolerably plain view through the openings in the woods, and were still standing quietly.
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