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She was a little confused in her mind where to go; but an instinct kept her course to the left, and consequently further away from her fawn. Going now slower, and now faster, as the pursuit seemed more distant or nearer, she kept to the southwest, crossed the stream again, left Panther Gorge on her right, and ran on by Haystack and Skylight in the direction of the Upper Ausable Pond.
This farm comprises forty acres and contains one hundred silver foxes. It is open to visitors from July to September. The road leading to this farm passes through one of most picturesque of all the Adirondack regions. As we made our way across the beautiful Ausable valley we beheld an enchanting scene spread out around us.
Over the notched summits of the clustered peaks the outlines of thunder heads, luminous and edged with gold, appeared through the blue haze. At length a broad summit rising against another one still taller, broke suddenly above the foliage where the amber colored falls of Ausable river saluted us. We were in the midst of one of the finest pieces of natural scenery in the eastern United States.
Let those who will, chant in heroic verse the renown of Amazon and Mississippi and Niagara, but my prose shall flow or straggle along at such a pace as the prosaic muse may grant me to attain in praise of Beaverkill and Neversink and Swiftwater, of Saranac and Raquette and Ausable, of Allegash and Aroostook and Moose River.
"The bed was made, the room was fit, By punctual eve the stars were lit" but Greygown always insists upon completing that quotation from Stevenson in her own voice; for this is the way it ends, "When we put up, my ass and I, At God's green caravanserai." Our permanent camp was another day's voyage down the lake, on a beach opposite the Point Ausable.
Clymer quickly sold out and disappeared. The mill never prospered, and has long been in a ruinous condition. People of the neighborhood think that the ghost of Mrs. Clymer was that her name? still troubles it, and they pass the place with quickened steps. On Lower Ausable Pond is a large, ruddy rock showing a huge profile, with another, resembling a pappoose, below it.
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