File:Western field (1905) (14778840205).jpg

Identifier: westernfield61905olym (find matches)
Title: Western field
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Olympic Club (San Francisco, Calif.) California Game and Fish Protective Associations
Subjects: Olympic Club (San Francisco, Calif.) California Game and Fish Protectice Associations Sports
Publisher: San Francisco
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
fVMiV. -SgoyMWIW-J ^^/■iV/5i1
Text Appearing After Image:
ILENT beneath the silver lightof the northern moon lay thelake. Bound round about by thewall of the forest, it seemed byday a turquoise ringed with em-erald; by night, an emerald set in ebony.No ripple of wind-kissed water moved, noteven a solitary trout broke the level surface,while in the thm bank of reeds that limnedone shallow end a band of mallards, lean offlesh from their long northward flight, dozedaway the night in happy dreams of broodsthey were to rear in months to come. To right and left, to north and south, ris-ing high above even the wavering tips of thegaunt pines, range on range of snow-cappedpeaks broke the clear air. To the west a fewmiles, as men measure distance in this farnorthern world, rolled and tossed the sea; toeast, beyond more mountains than walled inthe west, lay the great plain, swinging awayto the south and east until it overran theHeight of Land and broke into the basinfrom which springs the Father of Waters.For the most part this plain was yet deep insn

Note About Images