Behind the cabin stretched the vast, mysterious, unbounded wilderness which held, hidden in its unmeasured depths, rivers and lakes and mountains that no man, save the wandering Indian, had ever looked upon--great solitudes whose silence had remained unbroken through the ages.
"If some of those Boy Scouts could only see this!" exclaimed Doctor Joe.
"'Twere fashioned by the Almighty for comfortable livin'," said Thomas, who had called Margaret and the boys and come out unobserved by Doctor Joe.

"There's no better shelter on the coast, and no better place for seals and salmon, with neighbours handy when we wants to see un, and plenty o' room to stretch.

'Tis the finest _I_ ever saw, whatever." "Yes, 'tis all of that," agreed Doctor Joe.

"But I wasn't thinking now of The Jug alone.

I was thinking of the majestic grandeur of the whole scene.