It'll bring us right out near the old creek bed.

Then we can follow that right down to the river.

That's the way Skinny did, but I guess he just stumbled through that way.

Ever hear of old Nick ?" "Only on account of the name, Nick's Cove," I said; "is he dead ?" "Oh, very much dead," he said; "he died about a hundred years ago.
Didn't you know he was dead ?" "Believe _me_, I never even knew he was sick," I told him.
Then he said, "Well, from all I can learn, old Nick owned all the land for miles around here, and he lived at the bottom of Black Lake." "Good night," I said, "if I owned as much land as that, I wouldn't live at the bottom of a lake." "Kind of damp, huh ?" he asked; "but you see Black Lake wasn't here then." "Where was it ?" I asked him.
"Well it just wasn't," he said; "it was dry land.

The way I make it out, it was Bowl Valley, and old Nick lived right down in the bottom of Bowl Valley.