At this the girl, who had been about to make up the fire, threw down the bit of driftwood and hid her face.

Between the two they noticed, as they raced by, the water-bucket hung on that heavy piece of driftwood that had frozen aslant in the river.

They stretch it over frames of driftwood.

Old logs and driftwood, that had been piled up year after year, were other obstacles in our way; and one can imagine how hard it was to make our way through such a mass of brush and forest by the dim light of the stars as they struggled through the dense branches of the trees.

There'll be driftwood on the beach, and, with good luck, we can fix 'er up there.

The wood hunters found their task a hard one, for, either there never had been much driftwood on these shores, or the natives had used it for summer camp-fires.

It was a tumble-down sort of a place, seemingly made of driftwood and old sacks and bits of canvas.

On the east rose a green and undulating slope up which the horses could easily travel, and which would take the outfit into a new valley in the direction of the Driftwood.

Two days later, there was only a low wall protecting a woven matting of driftwood sticks.

At first, he saw only random driftwood.

Forty minutes later, he was sitting on a driftwood log near the spot at the beginning of the beach where he had last met Francesca and where The Early People had waited for the sun.

Oliver waited at the beach, walking back and forth in front of the driftwood log.

As he approached the beach he saw a shiny patch on the driftwood log.

The river had fallen steadily all day; driftwood was left on the shore; rocks dried swiftly in the sun, cropping out like fangs above the foam of the stream.

Doomed to reaction, as an advancing pendulum is doomed to retrace its cycle, was this premature evolution; but temporarily, as a springtime freshet bears onward the driftwood in its path, it carried its predecessor, the unconventional, fighting, wild-loving adventurer, before.

Driftwood from the eternal sea of life.

Driftwood from the eternal sea of life.

2. At that moment the woods were filled with another burst of cries, and at the signal four savages sprang from the cover of the driftwood.

"Well," grinned Hank impudently, with his most malicious chuckle, "if I did, what then?" "I'd have you thrown out of the house," calmly replied Jack, seating himself on a big log of driftwood, once the rib of a schooner that went ashore on the dangerous shoals off Hampton and pounded herself to pieces.

Here we observed driftwood and rushes in the trees, fifteen feet above our heads.

Long before Bronson ventured to return to his mountain camp, Lorry was riding the hill trails again as spring loosened the upland snows and filled the cañons and arroyos with a red turbulence of waters bearing driftwood and dead leaves.

After supper we amused ourselves by building an immense bonfire of driftwood on the beach, and hurling blazing firebrands at the leaping salmon as they passed up the river, and the frightened ducks which had been roused from sleep by the unusual noise and light.

The former, or western one, is merely a long strip of heaped-up coral and shells, with a little sand and some driftwood running parallel to the outer edge of the reef, in the direction of the prevailing wind.

The driftwood fire was bright, and she saw Peregrine, looking deadly white, and equipped with slouched hat, short wrapping cloak, pistols and sword at his belt, dark lantern lighted on the table, and Hans also cloaked by his side.

CONTENTS FIRES OF DRIFTWOOD