We've some quicker water, an' the rafts hev to go separate." "How quiet!" exclaimed Kate, suddenly breaking the silence that followed the frontiersman's answer.
"Beautiful!" impetuously said Nell, looking up at Joe.

A quick flash from his gray eyes answered her; he did not speak; indeed he had said little to her since the start, but his glance showed her how glad he was that she felt the sweetness and content of this wild land.
"I was never in a wilderness before," broke in the earnest voice of the young minister.

"I feel an almost overpowering sense of loneliness.

I want to get near to you all; I feel lost.

Yet it is grand, sublime!" "Here is the promised land--the fruitful life--Nature as it was created by God," replied the old minister, impressively.
"Tell us a story," said Nell to the old frontiersman, as he once more joined the circle round the fire.
"So, little 'un, ye want a story ?" queried Jeff, taking up a live coal and placing it in the bowl of his pipe.