38 PEPACTON: A SUMMER VOYAGE. 



agreed to whistle. History does not tell how many 

 beaux there were bent upon this reckless enterprise, 

 but there were three girls. For refreshments they 

 bought a couple of gallons of whiskey and a few 

 pounds of sugar. When the spree was over, and the 

 expenses were reckoned up, there was a shilling 

 a York shilling apiece to pay. Some of the rev- 

 elers were dissatisfied with this charge, and intimated 

 ^lat the managers had not counted themselves in, but 

 taxed the whole expense upon the rest of the party. 



As I moved on I saw Henry's sister and the school- 

 mistress picking their way along the muddy road 

 near the river's bank. One of them saw me, and, 

 dropping her skirts, said to the other (I could read 

 the motions), " See that man! " The other lowered 

 her flounces, and looked up and down the road, then 

 glanced over into the field, and lastly out upon the 

 river. They paused and had a good look at me, 

 though I could see that their impulse to run away, 

 like that of a frightened deer, was strong. 



At the East Branch the Big Beaver Kill joins the 

 .Delaware, almost doubling its volume. Here I struck 

 the railroad, the forlorn Midland, and here another 

 set of men and manners cropped out, what may 

 oe called the railroad conglomerate overlying this 

 mountain freestone. 



" Where did you steal that boat ? " and, " Wha* 

 you running away for ? " greeted me from a hand 

 car that went by. 



I paused for some time and watched the fish 



