It looked far off--"Shall I go and see what it is ?" thought I to myself.
"No," thought I.

"It is too far off"-- so on I walked till I lost sight of it, when I repented and thought I would go and see what it was.

So I dashed down the moory slope on my right, and presently saw the object again--and now I saw that it was water.

I sped towards it through gorse and heather, occasionally leaping a deep drain.

At last I reached it.
It was a small lake.