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Updated: June 19, 2025
He too had been struck by one of these flying missiles which proved to be rocks. Stunned, but not seriously injured, Phi rose upon hands and knees and made all haste to fortify himself behind a massive bowlder. Growling defiance, the old dog crouched by his side. It was a moment of suspense. What could this mean? Into the boy's mind there crowded many questions.
Then, if the enemy was a bird or a beast, he merely hugged the rock, watching alertly until he was discovered, then flipped out of sight to the safety of rocky retreat, giving a defiant "squee-ek" as he went. But if a weasel appeared... I sat watching a cony one day in early fall as he lay in the sunshine upon a bowlder.
Bowlder thrust his big head through the sun-curtain behind him and continued the conversation: "See the White-Caps ain't got ye yet." "No, not yet." Harkless laughed. "Reckon the boys 'druther ye stayed in town after dark," the other called back; then, as the mare stumbled into a trot, "Well, come out and see us if ye kin spare time from the jedge's."
From under a bowlder gushed the sparkling spring, a grateful sight and sound to desert travellers. In a niche of the rock hung a silver cup. "Jack, no man knows how old this cup is, or anything about it. We named the spring after it Silver Cup. The strange thing is that the cup has never been lost nor stolen. But could any desert man, or outlaw, or Indian, take it away, after drinking here?"
Still the bowlder would not chip, and his arm was ready to drop off. At last Redtop said, "Enough for to-day! You will do." Thorn threw down his stones with a shout and ran to his grandfather. Old Flint sat at work under a big beech tree. At his side there was a little pile of bowlders, and about him there were chips of flint. "Well," he said, as he looked up at the boy, "how is stone work?"
Then I hid the Great Secret in a deep niche at the back of my cave, rolled the bowlder before my front door, and with bow, arrows, sword, and shield scrambled down into the peaceful valley. The grazing herds moved to one side as I passed through them, the little orthopi evincing the greatest wariness and galloping to safest distances.
As they reached the crest of the "Hood," Augusta seated herself on a flat bowlder, and the young student flung himself on a patch of greensward at her feet.
He was now studying the face of that rock at the cleft, and it was not long before he made up his mind that he could do something. "I won't waste any arrows on him," said the boy on the top of the bowlder. "Besides, if I don't get him too angry he may go off."
For a short distance down the valley I find road that is generally ridable, when it contracts to a mere ravine, and the only road is the bowlder strewn bed of the stream, which is now nearly dry, but in the spring is evidently a raging torrent.
The crop last year was such a whitish gall gave the warning. If a crow flies cawing over the path of the Pa'-tay as he returns to his dwelling, or if the dogs bark at him, many people will die in Bontoc. Three years ago a man was killed by a falling bowlder shortly after noon on this last day's ceremonial a flying crow had foretold the disaster.
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