302 GRAYLING. NORTHERN MICHIGAN. 



The sunset, that evening. was matchless in beauty, hut 

 grew terrific to see and feel. The anirry orb wrapped him- 

 self in tinted cloud- \vhich lie dyed in blood. As the dark 

 me down. thunder- era-lied ami rallied through all 

 the air. Li^htniiiLis smote downward from the sky into 

 the black, heaving bo-om of the water, like the aven'j;iim 

 sword of an archangel. Winds shrieked and howled amon- 

 the ropes and chains like atVriuhted -pints of evil. Then 

 came the dash and pour and din of the torrents of rain. 



the blackne, of darknes-. unpenetrable to the eye save by 



the. frequent lightning shafts, adding its lion-id majesty to 

 the scene. It wa-. altogether, something fearful andurand; 

 and the tales that were whi-pered. of wreck and di-a-teron 

 these stormy waters, lent additional doom to the ninht and 

 tempest. 



However, all that pa ed. and the moi'iiin^came in peai e 

 and beauty, as if summer MIII never inv\\ an^ry and >um- 

 mer skies never frowned nor ^rew black in th* 

 Throimh the St. ('lair, with its s\i---e->tioir^ of tishiim and 

 duck sh()otiim'. and down the Detroit Kiver. \\ilh charm- 

 ing resorts alon^- it- banks, we glided on our \\a\. The 

 last u-ood tlinncr on the M<irin, < '//// wa-hasiil\ eaten. \Ve 

 rose from the table, gathered up our slender lu^a.u;e. 

 walked over the gang-plank, and were in Detroit. Then. 1 

 \\e separated, our week in the Northern Wilderness of 

 Michigan ended. 



I'HK KM). 



