42 With Feet to the Earth 



gigantic steps, terraces that mark sub- 

 sidences in the lake. The founder of the 

 village, having put up his house, brought 

 his family to it on a bitter day of winter, 

 and on opening the door he found that 

 snow had drifted through a broken win- 

 dow. All was icy and comfortless, and he 

 turned as if to leave ; but his wife grasped 

 a broom and attacked the drift, saying, 

 " Please God, we will stay." And they 

 stayed. Another family, the Fletchers, like- 

 wise furnished a governor and a lieutenant- 

 governor to the State, and gave a library to 

 the township. From this hamlet have also 

 come a judge, a general, fifty soldiers of 

 the Union army, two or three millionaires, 

 several clergymen, physicians, and lawyers, 

 a State geologist, and sundry prosperous 

 merchants. 



In Cavendish, the pretty village below, 

 Black River enters on the stormiest part of 

 its career. Cavendish Gorge is a wild place, 

 with walls sometimes vertical, sometimes 

 overhanging, choked with masses that have 

 cracked and fallen in flood-time, drift tim- 

 ber, in niches twenty feet above the water, 



