Dreaming Back 
(Continued from page 74) 
Not far from my tent was a red cedar, 
of respectable proportions,—that was 
the answer to my problem. -I would 
cut it down, select a clean length of 
the trunk, and split it into shakes. 
These I would use for the sides of 
the pool or well, and also to make 
the steps in the bank. They would 
serve the purpose nobly. 
P to the top of the bank I was 
about to scramble when an un- 
expected sound came to my ears. It 
was the sound of an axe being driven 
sturdily into wood. It came from 
some distance down the shore. In- 
stantly the sight of the mysterious 
trail came back to me. There was 
someone besides myself sojourning 
hereabouts, then. I was not alto- 
gether “alone in the wilderness.” My 
first impulse was to leave the job I 
had set out to do and start an in- 
vestigation. If I had neighbors I 
wanted to know who they were. Per- 
haps some trapper had _ established 
himself near the shore. Perhaps it 
was an encampment of Siwashes. It 
might even be some young fellow like 
myself engaged in doing some pioneer 
work. 
So I speculated,—but resisted the 
tempation to investigate. There was, 
I fear, a hope that there was another 
human not so far away. .Even a fel- 
low of a quiet, and somewhat roman- 
tic nature, likes to have converse with 
others occasionally. 
“No,” said I aloud, addressing the 
moss-covered rock of my spring, “I 
mustn’t allow myself to be stampeded 
from my work by every strange sound 
I hear or I’ll accomplish nothing.” 
So I climbed to the top of the bank, 
gave Peter his freedom to find what 
grass he might, then, axe in hand ap- 
proached the red cedar. 
Have you ever chopped down a 
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blow. 
O work I went, then, ani soon the 
tall, tapering tree went crashing 
down to mother earth. On the trunk 
I marked a section that promised a 
straight, easily-split bolt, and then I 
discovered’“I was short one very nec- 
cessary tool,—a cross-cut saw. This 
would mean a journey back home. 
But the desire to improve my 
spring by making a pretty well or 
catch-basin was too strong to brook 
delay. I could, in my mind’s- eye, 
visualize the completed job: could, 
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