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Updated: May 3, 2025
Long after the camp had gone to bed, I lay on the pine-needles above the brook, shielded from the wind by a break in the slope, and thought of the strange happenings of that day. Presently the waning moon climbed reluctantly from the waters, and the stream became mottled, black and white, the trees tall blurs.
All the functions of government are in the hands of American army or navy officers. The fall of the beloved Mexican banner is as light and unmarked as the descent of the drifting pine-needles torn from the swaying branches of the storm-swept forest kings around him. His settled gloom casts a shadow over Lagunitas. The padre has lost his scholars.
"But," he said, looking down at her as he stood, "they're so so very blue." "Oh, all the Greys have blue eyes." He laughed gentle laughter and dropped on the pine-needles of the forest floor. The spring lay between them. He felt, as she did not, the charm of the stillness. He wanted to find words in which to put his desire for expression. She broke into his mood of imaginative seekings.
Reaching this leafy room, she threw herself on the pine-needles, moving her head from side to side as if in physical pain. There was shame mixed with the grief. Remembered endearments came back to her; his head had lain on her bosom one night when she had tried to ease his pain by her small, cool hands.
But now, her voice ceasing, suddenly the actual came back the brown brook swirling at their feet, the tall pines whispering above, the warm pine-incense, the tesserae of sun and shadow dancing together on the carpet of pine-needles, as the tassels overhead swung in the moving air. "You paint Elysium," he said. "You paint a veritable Island of the Blessed." Susanna's eyes clouded.
He could tell just where the nests were and the number of eggs, whether of the robin or the waterfowl. He knew the sunniest bank and shadiest dell, the smoothest path, with its carpet of pine-needles and fringe of fern, or the roughest crag and darkest abyss. He could read the clouds like an open page, and predict fine weather or the coming storm.
Johnny, at the bridle's length, nibbled at the enamelled green of the lion's tongue with equine vanity, for he knew that it would beautify his coat, and pushed his muzzle down among the dry leaves beyond the radius of the pine-needles, lipping them daintily in search of something more appetizing beneath.
Dale reined in and peered down at the pine-mat. "Fresh deer sign all along here," he said, pointing. "Wal, I seen thet long ago," rejoined Roy. Helen's scrutiny was rewarded by descrying several tiny depressions in the pine-needles, dark in color and sharply defined. "We may never get a better chance," said Dale. "Those deer are workin' up our way. Get your rifle out."
He swings his line out carefully over the water, and just as he is about to drop it in, the little brother, perched on the sloping brink, slips on the smooth pine-needles, and goes sliddering down into the pool up to his waist. How he weeps with dismay, and how funnily his dress sticks to him as he crawls out!
"Uncle James won't mind my leaving him, if I can go back and say I have punched Pete's head for throwing stones at him. Bother!" Tom gathered himself up, and stood flinching during a few moments, for he had caught his foot against a closely-sawn-off stump, and though the earth was covered with pine-needles it was hard. But the accident did not detain him many moments.
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