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Pineknot rubbed the place, but picked up the stick, stood aside, and set it as before. Then he said, "Do that again." Thorn did it again, and the stick flew among the trees. Over and over again they tried it, and every time the flying string threw the stick. "Now," said Thorn, "I shall bend a little branch as that tree was bent, and I shall tie a string to the ends."
And they all laughed and talked at once, telling how scared they had been. The growls of the bear still sounded through the woods, so the boys ran to the door to see him. "There he goes!" cried Pineknot with wide eyes, pointing. "How big he is!" cried Thorn; "I shall make his picture." Thorn ran back into the cave and quickly threw a pineknot on the fire. It blazed up and made all the cave light.
The goat ran; the baby laughed; Pineknot danced and clapped his hands. All at once, the goat stood up on her hind legs. The baby fell off, and rolled over and over on the ground. She cried out, though she was not hurt. And the boys laughed and shouted till the woods rang. After a while Pineknot thought of the goat; he had not tied her. "Where is the little goat?
"Go on, go on," said Thorn, "tell more." "As I looked, a shadow bird went over the rock," said Pineknot; "and then down dropped the mother eagle with a snake in her claws." "Oh," cried Thorn, "I wish I had seen it." "The young eagles held their mouths open," Pineknot went on, "and their mother fed them with the snake, a little bit at a time.
In fun they pushed her into the room behind the one they lived in. She cried out, because she was scared at the darkness. "How loud her voice sounds in there," said Thorn. "What is the rest of the cave like, father?" asked Pineknot. "Is it very big?" "Yes, it goes far back into the hill," said Strongarm. "I have never been to the end of it, myself."
"Last night when I was asleep," he said to himself, "my shadow self went away to the home cave. And there it saw my mother and Pineknot and the baby sitting about the fire, just as they used to sit. And they were talking about me, saying that they wanted to see me. And I want to go home to see them." The homesick boy went into the woods for comfort; he loved to watch the wild things going about.
In many places two pointed rocks touched each other and formed a great, rough, beautiful pillar. In some of the rooms the walls and pillars were lovely and white, glistening in the torch light. The boys looked at all these things in wonder. When at last they had come back to their own room, Pineknot asked, "Father, what is the water that we heard trickling in the cave?" "It is a stream.
The summons was answered by a bond-servant, a coarse-clad and dull-featured piece of humanity, who, after ascertaining that his master was the applicant, undid the door, and held a flaring pineknot torch to light him in. Farther back in the passage-way, the red blaze discovered a matronly woman, but no little crowd of children came bounding forth to greet their father's return.
Pineknot sat beside him, and Wow wow lay at his feet. Last summer a little boy went to visit his grandfather who lived near one of the beautiful lakes in the northern part of our own land. The family doctor was very kind to the boy and often took him on long walks into the country.
The seemingly dry sticks are thrust into yet drier ground where they take root and grow without water. Its bark is resinous and a fagot of dry sticks makes a torch that is equal to a pineknot. The echinocactus, or bisnaga, is also called "The Well of the Desert." It has a large barrel-shaped body which is covered with long spikes that are curved like fishhooks.
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