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Indomitably the human spirit, temporarily beaten down and crushed by misfortunes beyond all calculation, once th to the treirl e of the forest, close by the spring under the big rock

"We've got to have a base of supplies, or so of that sort," theaway into the wilderness at once, without consideration and at least some definite place where we can store a few necessaries and to which we can retreat, in case of need A camp, and--if possible--a fire, these are our first requisites"

Their caardless of the protests of birds and squirrels and h to offer protection froave shelter This oak, through whose branches darted rew up along the overhanging face of Spring Rock, as they christened it

By filling in the space between the rock and the bole of the oak witha heavy lean-to roof of leafy branches, thatched with lashed bundles of rass, they constructed in two days a fairly co supply of the finest water ever a hureat quantity for the girl's bed He hiuard with his only weapon--a jagged boulder lashed with leather thongs to a four-foot heft, even in the; very fashion of the neolithic ancestors of man

Their food supply reverted to such berries and fruits as they could gather in the fringes of the forest, for as yet they dared not penetrate far from the shore To these they added a plentiful supply of cla with sharp sticks, at low tide, far out across the sand-flats--toiling for all the world like two of the identical savages who in the long ago, a thousand or five thousand years before the whitethe north Atlantic coast

This shell-fish gathering brought the action of the tides to their careful attention The tide, they found, behaved ire an erratic ular flows a day there was but one And at the ebb more than two miles of beach and sea-bottom lay exposed below the spot where they had landed at the flood Stern analyzed the probable cause of this phenoular tides," he said, "only they're lost in the far larger flux and reflux caused by the vortex we escaped froh from the sea to lay bare twoa column of ating So to know more about it--a lot more!"