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Captain Greene's story "The Cat of the Cane-Brake" attracted so much attention at the time of its publication in the Metropolitan Magazine a year ago that it is interesting to find him achieving high distinction in other imaginative fields.
These curving banks, the rude and solitary huts of the wood-cutters, the vast bars of sand, covered gradually with cane-brake, and the range of impenetrable forest for hundreds of miles, comprise a vast gloomy landscape, which must be seen to be realized.... While the scene is fresh in my memory let me describe to you my last morning upon the Mississippi.
As you enter it, little Swiss châlets find kiosks, scattered here and there among the first trees, seem to have strayed and lost themselves in an endless and solitary forest. The trees are as thickly set as a cane-brake, and the alleys vanish in dark perspective.
I done gib it all up when I hear dem in de water arter me." "Did you get any thing to eat when you went out of the cane-brake," asked Lily. "No, missy; I got seen 'fore I find any ting." "Poor fellow! Then you haven't had any thing to eat for three days?" "Noting but leabes an de bark ob trees." "I will give you some supper at once," said Lily, as she hastened to the cabin. "Lily!" called Dan.
He obtained, however, some particulars from the various speakers, which, taken in connection with the broken and incoherent sentences of Forrester, who dashed into speech at intervals with something of the fury of a wounded panther in a cane-brake, contributed at length to his full enlightenment.
I should remember where it crossed the "big bayou" by the trunk of a fallen tree that served as a foot-bridge. I should remember where it ran through a strip of marsh impassable for horses, through the cane-brake, among the great knees and buttocks of the cypresses, down to the edge of the water.
It was with a diffidence and sense of guilt very strange to her pure, straightforward nature that she obeyed the summons. His back was to the door as she entered. "I can not tell you how sorry I am," she began. Bruce turned toward her his ghastly face, ravaged and deformed by passion and sleeplessness, like a cane-brake in the Western Indies over which a tornado has passed.
The springing up of a bush from under his horse's feet, and the starting away of a dozen frighted rabbits, might easily explain his conceit of the long-legged Indian, and his five murderous accomplices; and as for the savages seen in ambush at the Ford, the shaking of the cane-brake by the breeze, or by some skulking bear, would as readily account for them.
Suddenly they heard a crackling sound in the cane-brake near them; then came from a greater distance the bay of bloodhounds. There was no mistaking these sounds; and for an hour they listened in almost breathless anxiety to these appalling indications of a slave-hunt. The yelp of the dogs came nearer and nearer; but they had lost the sounds which indicated the presence of the hunted fugitive.
Jes now berry curious plant I see berry curious berry scace dat plant. I seed it in de cane-brake. Catch 'old, mass', while I go get um." I took hold of the sapling, and held it as desired, though not without some apprehension of the hideous reptile that curled and writhed at my feet. I had no need to fear, however.
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