granite-block

Updated: May 22, 2025

But, as they beheld the guide deposit his burden, with its helplessly trailing head and limbs, a cheer in unsteady tones rang above the slackening rattle of earth and stones, and the far-away boom of the granite-block as it buried itself in the forest beneath. "Hurrah! for you, Herb, old boy," yelled Cyrus triumphantly. "That was the grittiest thing I ever saw done' Hurrah! Hurrah! Hoo-ray!"

Isabel Hornibrook - Camp and Trail: A Story of the Maine Woods