Do you see any way of getting across the swamp ?" He did not answer, but Elsie instantly pointed toward the left, crying out eagerly: "Sure, Ah do.

The lan' is higher 'long thar, sah--yer kin see shale rock." "So you can; it almost looks like a dyke.

Let's try it, Tim." It was not exactly a pleasant passage, or a safe one, but the continual increase in light aided us in picking our way above the black water on either hand.

I let my horse follow those in front as he pleased and held tightly to the bit of the one bearing Eloise.

It had to be made in single file, and we encountered two serious breaches in the formation where the animals nearly lost their footing, the hind limbs of one, indeed, sliding into the muck, but finally reached the island end, clambering up through a fissure in the rock and emerging upon the higher, dry ground.