c 63 : 



cxtncealed even from the searching eye, — the white 

 sand freshly cast up where the spring is bubbhng in. 

 Often I sit patiently by the spring I have cleaned 

 out and deepened with my hands, and see the foul 

 water rapidly dissipated like a curling vapor and 

 giving place to the cool and clear. Sometimes I can 

 look a yard or more into a crevice under a rock, 

 toward the sources of a spring in a hillside, and see 

 it come cool and copious with incessant murmuring 

 down to the light. There are few more refreshing 

 sights in hot weather. 



Journal, ix, 477, 478. 



