THICK ICE 



it I had pleasant dreams of a prehistoric 

 race of mound-builders who might have 

 preceded the Indians in their occupation 

 of the land and have built these pond 

 embankments for purposes of their 

 own. 



Again my scientific friend disapproves 

 my dream theory in well-chosen argu- 

 ment that is very convincing to him. 

 Nevertheless I go my way with mind 

 equally divided, between theories as to 

 prehistoric men-mound-builders and the 

 probabilities of the work having been 

 done by that great beaver which, accord- 

 ing to the Algonquin legend, made the 

 world out of mud brought up from the 

 bottom of a lake. 



Mind you, I am quite convinced that 



it is the ice w r hich is doing this on the 



Reservoir shore, but Ponkapoag that 



is far enough away to be in the land of 



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