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hide is of the value of $1; that the carcass, exclusive of 
the hide, is of the value of $r for fertilizing purposes. 
That said body was not taken by any execution or other 
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plaintiff's family, the members of w-hicli were very much 
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said dog that they might give it a burial on their own 
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'Mid Reef and Rapid*— XXVHL 
BY F. R. WEBB. 
We were struck with the number of eagles seen in this 
lower river. We have never made a cruise on the Shenan- 
doah without seeing one or more of these great birds, but 
on this cruise, since leaving Riverton, we have noticed 
two or three every day, and generally at unusually close 
range. One was sighted on the morning's run, perched on 
a reef in midstream but a foot or so above the water, 
apparently engaged in fishing ; if so, he didn't get a strike, 
for on our approach he flapped his great wings and saded 
away, fishing tackle and all. disappearing through tiie 
tree tops on the left bank, to again reappear and dis- 
appear, as we rounded the bend to the left and entered 
upon the next reach. 
A few miles below Castleman's Ferry we crossed the 
line into West Virginia, and about 12:30 we landed at 
Rock Ferry, where we lay by until 2 o'clock for our noon- 
day lunch and siesta. It was not a particularly attractive 
place. Rock Ferry, but it answered our purpose, and wc 
made ourselves tolerably comfortable there. 
"There's a good snap for your kodak. George !" ex- 
claimed Lacy, as a couple of stylishly dressed, pretty girls 
came tripping lightly down the high bank, and took their 
places in the roomy, flat-bottomed punt moored alongside 
of the ferry boat, where they were joined by an awkward, 
half-grown boy. in tow-linen shirt and trousers and not 
much else. who. standing tip in the stern of the boat, poled 
them slowly and steadily across the river, their parasols, 
hats and costumes standing out in bright relief on the 
steely blue surface of the river, which gave them back 
in wimpling reflections as the long lines of ripples spread 
away from the blunt bow of the slowly advancing boat. 
The kodak, however, was in the canoe, and the canoe 
was 50 or 6oyds. away from where George lay. flat on his 
hack on his mattress, with his book in his hand and his 
little, double-decked meerschaum in his mouth, too in- 
dolent and comfor.able to rise and so the attractive snap 
was not secured. 
We swept around a stately bend to the left, a couple 
of miles below. A handsome residence, embowered in 
trees, stood on top of the sloping bank on the outside of 
the bend, with a ferry boat moored to the shore. George 
brought the inevitable bugle into play when the house was 
in sight. There was no answering "Whoo-ee !" this time. 
Instead, a couple of tastily attired, girlish figures ap- 
peared, hurrying down the path leading from the top of 
the blufi' to the ferry, evidently intent on running out on 
the boat to see us glide b}-. 
"Jerneys!" said George, laconically, as. with a strong 
sweep of the paddle, he .sent his canoe close in to the outer 
end of the ferry boat, and reached for the kodak, intent 
on securing a shot as he passed, tlis disreptttable appear- 
ance, however — for George is anything but a prepossessing 
youth when clad in his canoeing habiliments after he has 
been out a week or two — stayed the further progress of 
Ihe girls, and they remained timidly on the bank among 
!!ie trees, until! we have passed, and had dropped some 
distance below, when they appeared, statuesque, on the 
extreme outer end of the ferry boat, where they remained 
until we passed out of sight down the rapids and around 
the" l)end below. 
Shannondale Springs occupies a beautiful location. The 
river sweeps, broad and majestic, in a great horseshoe 
bend around three sides of a long point or tongue of 
land, heavily wooded and beautifully turfed, which rises 
in a gentle slope to a considerable height from the water. 
Across from the point, on a beautiful, gently sloping 
eminence, the old Rouss mansion stands, embowered in 
trees and with its beautiful, well-kept lawn sloping gently 
down to the river. A quarter of a mile below, located on 
a commanding bluff, the elegant suimiier villa of million- 
aire Charles Broadway Rouss, of New York, stands. The 
ntodern structure, with its towers and gables, its statuary 
and flights of white stone .steps leading from terrace to 
terrace of its ample, beautifnlly kept grounds, presents 
an imposing appearance from the river; but I found the 
classic old family mansion above much more interesting. 
Shannondale Springs was a favorite resort for the 
gentry of northern Virginia for many years in the good, 
old. ante-bellum times. The buildings, consisting of a 
main hotel budding, surrounded by kitchen, stables" and a 
group of cottages, are nicely located on the well-shaded 
side of the gentle eminence sloping up from the river, on 
the lower side of the tongue or point of land. 
The lawn slopes down in a beautiful sweep from the 
buildings to the river, where it terminates in a high, steep 
bank, some 20ft. above the water. 
The main hotel building was burned years ago, and the 
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springs fell into a state of innocuous desuetude, save for 
the visits of yearly camping parties, who pitched their 
tents on the lawn or occupied some of the more habitable 
cottages. 
Recently a small but comfortable hotel building has 
been erected on the foundation walls of the old building, 
and the Springs are now occupied and open as such once 
again. 
We landed at the boat house above the rapids, and 
Lacy and I walked up to the hotel to obtain permission to 
camp on the place, for, although it was yet early, this was 
ihe place decided ttpon for our night's camp. After 
stopping on the way to take a drink of water from the 
principal spring on the place — a strong chalybeate spring 
incased in masonry imder the shelter of a sinall, wooden 
paAnlion — we approached the hotel and mounted a long 
flight of wooden steps leading up to the ample veranda in 
front of the structure. The only occupant of the veranda 
was an elderly gentleman with a gray moustache, whittling 
away industriously upon an axe handle. To my modestly 
])referred request for the individual in charge of the 
place, he replied, as he continued his whittling, that he 
was in charge of the place just at present, and intimated 
a desire to know our errand. I briefly outlined our ex- 
pedition and asked permission to caiup on the river bank, 
at the foot of the lawn. He looked up froin his axe 
handle a moment and his eyes rested upon Lacy. I ought 
to have known better than to bring Lacy along, but he 
seemed to want to come, and I could not, of course, say 
no. That glance settled it. He was sorry. He would 
like very much to oblige us, but they were obliged to 
make it a rule not to allow camping parties of any de- 
scription on the springs grounds. It wasn't far to 
Bloomery, and we would find a good location there for 
our camp, he further informed us, as he applied himself 
with renewed vigor to the axe handle. 
Now, I didn't want to go to Bloomery. In fact, I had 
no intention of going there, so I brought my persuasive 
eloquence to bear upon the elderly gentleman with such 
effect that the desired permission was finally obtained, and 
in fifteen minutes more the canoes were dropped down 
over the head of the rapid, and, with the assistance of a 
couple of passing teamsters and a colored gentleman 
from the hotel — all of whom felt amply repaid for their 
kindly services by a pull from a medicinal flask dis- 
covered in a pocket in one of the canoes — they were car- 
ried up the high bank, and deposited for the night in 
probablj'- the most picturesque camping place we had 
occupied during the entire cruise. 
The hills across the river approach and break off 
abruptly in bold cliffs and rugged precipices, the broken 
and twisted strata of which present curiously diversified 
lines. The river, which is very broad, breaks up into the 
most beautiful and picturesque rapids, which extend as 
far down as the eye can reach, and whose musical mur- 
mur fell on our ears in rising and falling cadences. All 
around us the well-turfed lawn stretched away, dotted 
with fine, old trees, and sloping gently upward to the 
hotel building and the abandoned, half-ruined cottages 
around it. 
While I was attending to my professional dutie^ at 
the camp stove, a party of ladies and children were dis- 
covered approaching, accompanied by the elderly gentle- 
man of the axe-handle proclivities. Lacy and I were at 
once recognized and cordially greeted by one of the ladies. 
wlwDiu we had formerly known before her marriage as a 
shining light in Staunton society, and who introduced us 
to the other ladies and to Major Kearsley, the business 
manager of the sprmgs. They took great interest in our 
camp and outfit, and informed us that most of the guests 
of the place had departed, as the season nominally closed 
Sept. I, although some few still remained. They ex- 
pressed great regret that we had not arrived a week 
earlier, as ottr unique, pretty camp would have proved 
highly interesting to the guests. 
We had an elegant fish supper, and. just as we gathered 
around the table to enjoy it, a fresh irrtiption of visitors 
froin the hotel arrived. 
■■Commodore," exclaimed George, with his mottth full 
of bass, "you're the best-looking man in the party and 
possess the best tiualifications for the job. You'll have to 
do the honors of the camp." 
There was no' gainsaying this self-evident proposition, 
although the motive which prompted it was plainly ap- 
parent, so I left my scarcely tasted supper and showed the 
visitors around, and explained everything, with great 
credit to mj'self and the club, while George and Lacy 
got away sticcessfully with the bass. 
After supper Lacy and I spent the evening at the hotel, 
while George remained in camp to take a bath, in which 
laudable and commendable enterprise Lacy and I felt 
justified in giving him all possible encouragement. 
It blew great guns in the night, while a soyere thunder 
storm fairly shook the earth, and 1 thought for a Avhile 
that the heavy wind and rain would lift us bodily clean 
out of the county, the storm got .stich a sweep at us in 
our exposed position, right on the margin of the high 
bank, provided, of course, we were not first struck by 
lightning. 
Our day's cruise — the last of the trip — ^was short as to 
miles, but by far the most eventful and exciting of the 
whole trip, and when, at 6 o'clock, we finally paddled out 
of the Shenandoah into the broad Potomac and went into 
cam|) on the rocky bank of that stream, looyds. below the 
mouth of the Shenandoah, it was with feelings of relief 
and thankfulness that we had gotten safely through with- 
out accident, for we had not reached our destination with- 
out adventures, thrilling and exciting, compared with 
which most of those above were tame, nor without sitr- 
mounting difficulties and shooting falls and rapids in 
comparison with which the entire upper river was hut 
child's play. 
Our friends from the hotel were down early to see us 
pack and start, and the Major, who proved to be a 
genial, kindly gentlenran when you knew him, gave us 
many points about the riA^er below which we found both 
accurate and useful — qualities which, more often than not. 
we have found quite lacking in most of the information 
about the river procured from the dwellers along its bank. 
The three miles to Bloomery were quickly and easily 
run. The rapids opposite, and extending for a mile or 
more below our camp, gave lis a splendid run, and 
