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Updated: June 9, 2025
The bear came on cautiously; and the great branch bent low under his weight, till Coxen was not more than a couple of feet from the top of the young fir. Then, nervously letting go, he dropped, caught the thick branches in his desperate clutch, and clung secure. The big branch, thus suddenly freed of Coxen's substantial weight, sprang back with such violence that the bear almost lost his hold.
The view from the top of Coxen's Peak was very extensive: towards the south-west and west, Peak Range was seen extending from Scott's and Roper's Peaks to Fletcher's Awl; and, beyond the last, other mountains were seen, several of which had flat tops.
It was a sodden note which ran: 'Dear Rhoda Mr. Lotten, with whom I rode home this afternoon, told me that if this wet keeps up, he's afraid the fish-pond he built last year, where Coxen's old mill-dam was, will go, as the dam did once before, he says. If it does it's bound to come down the brook. It may be all right, but perhaps you had better look out.
'And the rain stopped before eight, you know. 'Then Coxen's dam 'as broke, and that's the first of the flood-water. She stared out beside him. The water was rising in sudden pulses an inch or two at a time, with great sweeps and lagoons and a sudden increase of the brook's proper thunder. 'You can't stand all the time. Take a chair, Midmore said presently. Rhoda looked back into the bare room.
He appeared to take it as a challenge, for he shook his beautiful antlers and stamped his forefeet defiantly and shattered yet another precious cabbage. Wrath struggled with astonishment in Sam Coxen's primitive soul. Then he concluded that what he wanted was not only vengeance, but a supply of deer's meat to compensate for the lost cabbages.
We passed the night at a small pool, but were not successful in discovering water in any of the numerous watercourses and creeks, which come down from Coxen's Range, or out of the belt of scrub which intervened between the range and the river. A loose variegated clayey sandstone, with many irregular holes; cropped out in the beds of the creek.
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