344 Tue Aroostook Woops. 

And now we cut across from the sunlighted bank to the 
right hand and the little lady is going quietly through the 
deep shadows, without urging, by the darker banks, where 
the sun is hardly known ever to smile upon them. And 
beneath these thickets of evergreens, upon the everywhere 
mossy bank, it is very, very pretty, for the large granite rocks 
are nearly covered with green and gray mosses, with a wealth 
of pretty green ferns so elegant and so very perfect in their 
form, growing at the base of the rocks, between, and in their 
crevices, Where they will here escape the hard frosts, until 
others are withered in exposed situations, will be covered 
with snow, and yet, protected by that all through the winter, 
will come out in the spring time all green again, after the 
warm rains. And all are shaded by the thick, dense ever- 
greens that are ever beautiful, and though the sun scarcely 
shines upon their river side, they keep their rich green, and 
are never chary of their fragrance. 
Then crossing again and along the banks where the sun so 
much is shining, we pass many thrifty clumps of the high 
bush cranberry, well loaded yet with fruit, large, fair, crimson 
clusters, hanging handy for the picking, all of which we 
must leave behind for the birds and for the old bear to break 
the bushes down, as he sits up on his haunches with a bush 
bent down under his arm, and luxuriates; and help yourself 
Mr. Bruin, for we cannot, but the only why we don’t, is 
because our sugar box is so nearly M T. 
On, a little way, and now the round woods upon the 
opposite attract much attention, and from the birds as well, 
for we see feeding upon their red fruit, so bright, growing 
among the firs, both the crossbills and the robins. So the 
Commodore guides the lady close in and we move so quietly, 
