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of river, had swung its bridge to a firm 

 lodgment on the further bank. Aban- 

 doning the idea of replacing the heavy 

 structure we unharnessed the horses, per- 

 suaded them to take the plunge under 

 leadership of the Coq, and crossed the 

 planches by hand. It was the last obstacle; 

 thanks to watchful care that left no tricks in 

 the game to chance, the canoe was unload- 

 ed at Lac Cran Rouge with no worse than 

 an insignificant scrape or two upon her 

 canvas. 



The tenth in a series of useful interdicts 

 (conveniently interpreted with a little wise 

 discrimination) forbids the coveting of 

 other men's goods. In my construing it is 

 not concerned with the incorporeal — with 

 that gift of my neighbour's, for example, 

 whereby he is able to imprison upon a scrap 

 of paper, with a few cubes of moistened 

 colour, what things go to make every fresh 

 Laurentian lake unlike all others, its very 

 self: — the marks and traits of individuality 

 in curve of shore-line, gleaming beaches, 

 gray cliffs that plunge to deep water and 

 dark, reed-fringed bays shadowed by the 

 crowding ranks of the spruces, little capes 

 where birches stoop over the lichened 

 boulders, the frowns and smiles upon an 

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