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Title: The house in the water: a book of animal stories
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir, 1860-1943
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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the twilight coolness to bringthe big trout to the surface to feed. The smoothwater glimmered pallidly, and here and there aspreading, circular ripple showed that the hungryfish were beginning to rise. Up in the flood of the sunset, the blueberriesbasked and glowed, some looking like gems, somelike blossoms, according to the fall of the light.Around the shoulder of the mountain toward theeast, where the direct rays of the sun could notreach, the light was yet abundant, but cool and ten-der, — and here the vivid berries were beginning tolose their colour, as a curved moon, just rising overthe far, ragged rim of the forest, touched themwith phantom silver. Everywhere jutting rocksand sharp crevices broke the soft mantle of the blue-berry thickets; and on the southerly slope, wheresunset and moonrise mingled with intricate shad-ows, everything looked ghostlike and unreal. Onthe utmost summit of the mountain a rounded peakof white granite, smoothed by ages of storm, shonelike a beacon.
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AN OLD SHE-BEAR WITH TWO HALF-GROWN CUBS. mben tbe Blueberries Hre 1Rtpe 155 The only berry-pickers that came to these highslopes of Bald Mountain were the wild kindreds,furred and feathered. Of them all, none were moreenthusiastic and assiduous than the bears; and justnow, climbing up eagerly from the darkening woodsbelow, came an old she-bear with two half-growncubs. They came up by easy paths, zigzaggingpast boulder and crevice, through the ghostly, noise-less contention of sunlight and moonlight. Nowtheir moving shadows lay one way, now the other;and now their shadows were suddenly wiped out, asthe two lights for a moment held an even balance.At length having reached a little plateau where theberries were particularly large and close-clustered,the old bear stopped, and they fell joyously to theirfeeding. On these open heights there were no enemiesto keep watch against, and there was no reasonto be wary or silent. The bears fed noisily, there-fore, stripping the plump fruit cleverl

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