" It is no longer a sorry forest of battered, sunken stumps." 



bridge, but left the piles, green and grown over 

 with moss, standing with their heads just above 

 flood-tide mark. In the tops of the piles are 

 holes, bored to pass lines through, or left by 

 rusted bolts, and eaten wide by waves and wind. 

 Besides these there are a few genuine excava- 

 tions made by erratic woodpeckers. This whole 

 clump of water-logged piles has been colonized 

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