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This was a splendid chance, as the dark colour of the bear looked well upon the yellow grass. I made a most satisfactory shot with the .577 at 150 yards, the bullet passing through the kidneys, and the bear rolled over and over the whole way down the steep grassy hill, until stopped by the thick bushes, which alone prevented it from rolling into the streamlet at the bottom.
A few lofty Scotch firs grew hard by upon a knoll; a clear fountain near the foot of the knoll sent up a miniature streamlet which meandered in the heather. A shower had just skimmed by, but now the sun shone brightly, and the air smelt of the pines and the grass. On a stone under the trees sat a young lady sketching.
That day they went out into the woods, and they sat beside a stream that pattered along beneath the trees, and through the leaves tossing in the breeze the sun flashed down upon the streamlet, and shadow and sunshine danced upon it. As the children watched the water sparkling where the sunlight fell, Nora said: "Oh, Connla, did you ever see anything so bright and clear and glancing as that?"
He stared; and little by little he made out the great apartment, with a domed ceiling from which the light poured, and walls that were one enormous painting nymphs and dryads dancing in a flower-strewn glade Diana with her hounds and horses, dashing headlong through a mountain streamlet a group of maidens bathing in a forest pool all life-size, and so real that Jurgis thought that it was some work of enchantment, that he was in a dream palace.
Having passed through the tangled mazes of the glen, he at length reached its bottom, along which ran a brook, such as in the description of the poet, In the leafy month of June, Unto the sleeping woods all night, Singeth a quiet tune." Here he stood, and looked upon the green winding margin of the streamlet but its song he heard not.
No elder grew here there was not even a flower-pot with its little green plant; but just opposite the workshop stood a great old willow tree, that seemed to cling fast to the house, for fear of being carried away by the water, and which stretched forth its branches over the river, just as the willow at Kjöge spread its arms across the streamlet by the gardens there.
The shores of the S.W. point of this island and some adjoining islets, are fringed by reefs, as may be seen in the "Atlases of the Voyages of the 'Coquille' and 'Astrolabe'." M. Lesson observes that the reefs are open in front of each streamlet.
Continually, indeed, as it stole onward, the streamlet kept up a babble, kind, quiet, soothing, but melancholy, like the voice of a young child that was spending its infancy without playfulness, and knew not how to be merry among sad acquaintance and events of sombre hue. "Oh, brook! Oh, foolish and tiresome little brook!" cried Pearl, after listening awhile to its talk, "Why art thou so sad?
"It was very near me once, and I thought the next thunder's rain would wash it down into the streamlet it has been here ever so long, it came here first just after the oak the lightning split died.
It was a placid black little streamlet, which in that portion of its course was hurried by no steepness, had no broken rocks in its bed, no trees on its low banks, and played none of those gambols which make running water beautiful. The bridge was a simple low construction with a low parapet, carrying an ordinary roadway up to the hall door.
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