Cat o' mountain

Cat o' mountain

Into his new-laid rock the giant crashed his huge hammer, smashing asunder his handiwork, gouging out chasms, splitting it into fissure and cavern and abyss, slashing its eastern edge into a frowning precipice. When he had gone, up into some of his hammer-scars welled subterranean waters, forming crag-bound lakes hundreds of feet higher than the rugged valley floor. Other chasms became gulfs of verdure, crammed with a veritable jungle of hardwoods and evergreens. And there, in the labyrinth of tree and bowlder, fierce brutes and venomous snakes bred and fought and slew. It was the home of the wolf, the panther, and the bear; of the rattlesnake and the copperhead. Then came men: savages who killed and ate the wild beasts and clothed themselves in their furry hides. Through the gorges and down the slopes they laid their trails, along which they roved for centuries in hunt and tribal war. At length they paused, staring eastward at new fires burning below themthe fires of white men. The inevitable followed. First by firewater, then by firearms, the Dutch settlers crowded the tawny[6] duyvils out of the forested lowlands between the river of Hendrick Hudson and the mountain wall. But behind that wall, in the natural stronghold created by the mad Mountain-Maker, the red men long held their own. More, at times they swooped out from the one small gap in the cliffs on bloody raids. And when the vengeful whites retaliated with invasions of their fastness, they ambushed those palefaces along their trails. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 68896
Author: Friel, Arthur O. (Arthur Olney)
Release Date: Sep 2, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: The Penn Publishing Company
Publication Date: 1923
Publisher Country: United States

Contributors

Illustrator: Humphreys, Donald S