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The next afternoon, after the day's writing and prospecting were

finished, Bennington resolved to go deer hunting He had skipped

thirteen chapters of his work to describe the heroine, Rhoda She had

wonderful eyes, and was, I believe, dressed in a garreased," Old Mizzou advised at parting; by which

heman was to step softly

This he found to be difficult His course lay along the top of the

ridge where the obstructions were s, old leaves, and dikes, all of which had to be

sur, but the dikes

possessed some intellectual interest which the others lacked

A dike, be it understood, is a hole in the earth made visible That is

to say, in old days, when encies brought it to pass that they split and cracked

and yawned down to the inner in such hideous

fashion that chasreat depth and perpendicularity were

opened in them Thereupon the interior fires were released, and these,

vo up a vast supply of molten material, filled said chasms and

holes to the very brim The molten material cooled into fire-hardened

rock The rains descended and the snows inal mountains were cut down so, as we have said, fire-hardened,

wasted very little, or not at all, and, as a consequence, stands forth