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Updated: May 11, 2025
The frost arose, the earth mellowed underfoot, and the creek purled and sang as it hastened along. The cattle played, calves were born, while the horses, in shedding their winter coats, matted the saddle blankets and threw off great tufts of hair where they rolled on the ground. The marketing of the peltry fell to Joel. Dell met the wagon returning far out on the trail.
Afore I knowed it two years slipped by, an' all at once I got homesick, en' purled a bridle south. "Things at home had changed. I never got over that homecomin'. Mother was dead an' in her grave. Father was a silent, broken man, killed already on his feet.
The streams now more properly deserved the name, for, instead of slumbering stagnant among reeds and willows, they brawled along beneath the shade of natural copsewood; were now hurried down declivities, and now purled more leisurely, but still in active motion, through little lonely valleys, which, opening on the road from time to time, seemed to invite the traveller to explore their recesses.
I am not willing to believe that God meant men like these to perish I don't like to think of Emerson being lost, or Huxley, or Spencer, or even Darwin Question: has the Church power to save the educated?" "Sure, I know one that has never lacked it," purled Father Riley. "There's an answer to you in Linford's letter," added Whittaker.
And, with a laugh, she touched her Norman with the whip, and I kept Lizette pounding after her, until she pulled up, flushed and hot, near the trees, beside which the Mable purled past. "Beaten again," she said as I came up. "It is my fate." And, pulling up, I pointed to the river. "Do you remember this river, mademoiselle?" "The Mable!" And she shuddered.
A half laugh, half snarl purled from Connie Myers' lips, as he snatched a stout piece of cord from his pocket and swiftly knotted the unconscious man's wrists together. Another instant, and, picking up the bar, prying with it again, the loosened stone toppled with a crash into the grate.
"Then I don't think it nice here at all," she complained. "I shall sit up straight so the brush may put my eyes out!" But her head pressed even closer against him, and careful not to interrupt his paddle-stroke she touched his face for an instant with her hand. "It's there," she purled, as if utterly comforted. "I wanted to be sure it is so dark!"
Side by side they wended their way along the bank, then down into a little valley close by the river, where a small stream purled through a grove of fir and cottonwood trees. Birds were flitting here and there, while a noisy squirrel, sitting on a high branch, chattered and scolded incessantly at the intruders into its domain.
Through the middle of it purled a tiny creek which disappeared between the ragged shoulders of rock, and close to this creek stood the cabin, its log walls smothered under a luxuriant growth of wood-vine. But Peter's quizzical little eyes were not measuring the beauty of the place, nor were his ears listening to the singing of birds, or the chattering of a red-squirrel on a stub a few yards away.
Life was here, but it was the shy life of wild creatures, approaching man only when he had returned to earth. A mocking-bird purled a love note in the twilight of a great black cedar, a lizard glided like a gray shadow along one of the overturned slabs, and at his entrance a rabbit had started from the ivy on his father's grave.
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