(guinea 



in exploring the neighboring brooks and streams, 

 but they never fail to return in time for autumn 

 activities. It thus becomes plain how, when an 

 old colony needs to move, some one in it knows 

 where to go and the route to follow. 



The Moraine colonists gathered an unusually 

 large harvest during the autumn of 1909. Seven 

 hundred and thirty-two sapling aspens and several 

 hundred willows were massed in the main pond 

 by the largest house. This pile, which was mostly 

 below the water-line, was three feet deep and one 

 hundred and twenty-four feet in circumference. 

 Would a new house be built this fall? This un- 

 usually large harvest plainly told that either child- 

 ren or immigrants had increased the population 

 of the colony. Of course, a hard winter may also 

 have been expected. 



No; they were not to build a new house, but 

 the old house by the harvest pile was to be en- 

 larged. One day, just as the evening shadow of 

 Long's Peak had covered the pond, I peeped over 

 a log on top of the dam to watch the work. The 

 house was only forty feet distant. Not a rip- 

 ple stirred among the inverted peaks and pines 



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