leg-straddled

Updated: June 14, 2025

Then the cautious leg-straddled passage of the swift current, during which we forgot for ever which eternity alone circles the bliss of an afternoon on the River the chill of the water, and so came to the trail. Now, at the Idiot's Delight Dick and I parted company. By three o'clock I came again to the River, far up, halfway to the Big Falls. Deuce watched me gravely.

Stewart Edward White - The Forest