170 BOUI/DER REVERIES. 



As he strikes the surface and dives to the 

 shelter of a friendly boulder, the minnows in 

 the pool dart wildly to and fro, wondering per- 

 chance, what has disturbed the serenity of their 

 abiding place. Horny heads and stone rollers 2 

 they mostly are, dwelling here in peace and 

 unity, free from the tempting hook which be- 

 guiles their kin in the pools of similar streams, 

 nearer the larger towns and cities. Preyed upon 

 only by an occasional kingfisher or passing 

 mink, living and loving and begetting jtheir 

 kind, changing the matter prepared by lowly 

 plant form into their muscles, thus gathering 

 and storing for higher animals which in time 

 may happen by, these minnows pass a dreamy 

 sort of existence in these woodland pools. How 

 long they live, if left to live, I know not. A 

 score of years, perhaps, if the fates are kind. 



Along the shelving banks and low bluffs of 

 this stream are, in many places, cedars juni- 

 pers ranging in height from one to twenty feet. 

 The seeds from which they sprang were dropped 

 here by some bird three, eight, a dozen years 



*ffybopsis kentuckiensis (Raf.) and Campostoma anovno,- 

 Zwm (Raf.). 



