There was a warm, autumnal haze, which, I think, seemed
to throw the mountains farther off, and both to enlarge and soften them.
To imagine the gorges and deep hollows in among the group of mountains,--
their huge shoulders and protrusions.
"They were just beginning to pitch over the mountains, as I came along,"
--stage-driver's expression about the caravan.
A fantastic figure of a village coxcomb, striding through the bar-room,
and standing with folded arms to survey the caravan men. There is much
exaggeration and rattle-brain about this fellow.
A mad girl leaped from the top of a tremendous precipice in Pownall,
hundreds of feet high, if the tale be true, and, being buoyed up by her
clothes, came safely to the bottom.
Inquiries about the coming of the caravan, and whether the elephant had
got to town, and reports that he had.
A smart, plump, crimson-faced gentleman, with a travelling-portmanteau of
peculiar neatness and convenience. He criticises the road over the
mountain, having come in the Greenfield stage; perhaps an engineer.
Bears still inhabit Saddleback and the neighboring mountains and forests.
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