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When they awoke the sun was up, the mists had rolled out of the

hollow, and every bush and blade of grass glittered as if set in

dia,

eddying, gurgling, sparkling down the incline, to join the larger

strea and dark

"It is full of fish," gleefully exclai a fly

(for they had not come without tackle), she soon landed a trout about

a pound weight It was a blending of pink and silver on the belly,

and was mottled with dots of brown "One apiece," she cried, as

another beauty curled and leaped upon the grass, by one of Annette's

deftly booted little feet

The kit supplied two or three flat pans that could be stowed

conveniently; and into one of these the fish were put

"Now, Julie, while you prepare the breakfast, I shall go and take a

look at how things stand in the next cah bush and brake, and perceived the band

justready for a start Captain Stephens was put upon a horse

in the centre of the cavalcade, and his companion, pale and blood-

stained, rode next behind

Annette and Julie cautiously followed, drawing close to the party

when it rode through the bush, but keeping far in the rear when the

course lay over the plain Towards the set of sun, they observed a