Partridge Island 
and we passed under one that spanned the 
valley eighty feet above our heads, held up on 
a trestle with slender spider-like legs. These 
sluices leak freely ; besides, the water washes 
over the sides v/henever a deal comes along 
forming cascades more interesting to observe 
than to pass under. The deals sometimes go 
overboard, and we saw them strewing the ground 
along the course of the high sluice and breathed 
a sigh of relief when safely past the spot where 
a deal might have dropped down some eighty 
feet on our heads. 
One day we bade farewell to Parrsboro and 
trusted ourselves to the mercy of the " Evange- 
line" at break of day. A light fog partly 
obscured the surrounding headlands that looked 
out at us dim and mysterious. 
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