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the bridge being repaired.  We inquired about the old mill.  The man,
however, was a stranger and did not know, but he directed us to an
old fisherman, up the stream, who knew all about the place and who had
been living in the locality more than 60 yrs.  The man was very kind and
loaned us his boat.  In a little while we were up the stream along side
the old man.  He knew about the mill and directed us <s>to</s> how to find it.
He thought we might want to buy the property, but when we told
him we were only looking for a rare plant, he thought it might be 
the "Devil's Shoe-string".  I had never heard of any plant called by
the name, so had him to describe it to me.  From his description, I
recognized our Yucca filamentosa.  He said it grew wild about the
place, but that people had been transplanting them to their own places
so that there were no more to be found.  We asked him if he thought
this was Indian summer, but he thought it came later.  He told us
that the old folks had told him, when a boy, that Indian summer was the
time when the Indians burned the dried leaves in the woods, so as
to get the chestnuts; this burning of the leaves made it warm.
We had no trouble finding the old ruins, a few heaps of stones is 
all that is left of old mill.  The walk along the mill race, although
short was fine.  Two places were found where the Opuntia
        