90 STORIES OF EARTH AND SKY 



up jelly cake. You look almost as if you were 

 made of that very same rock." 



The Arrow-head seemed to quiver as Anne 

 pressed it against the palm of her hand, and asked 

 in an eager, choking voice : 



"Does the rock wall face the rising sun? Are 

 there old trees fringing the top? Tall trees in 

 a long waving line, like warriors hemmed back 

 in a last battle; then beyond these trees an 

 open place from which the stones have all been 

 gathered?" 



" I think the cliff does face sunrise," said Anne, 

 after hesitating a moment, " because I remember 

 the sun lies full on it in the morning ; but I'll go 

 and ask Obi and Baldy they'll know because 

 they've been up there this winter after Foxes, and 

 I haven't been there since Crotalus, the Bad One, 

 died," she said, starting up. 



" No, do not go, House Child," begged the 

 Arrow-head ; " let us be alone together for a time, 

 you and I, for you tell me strange news, and I may 

 tell you stranger yet. A bout the tree fringe and 

 the cleared ground, are they there ? " 



" There were trees there until last year, but 

 lumbermen have cut them down. Father says 

 there must have been a very old wood there once, 

 of great white oaks, a pri-me-val forest, he 



