was quite solid, and was held fast in the thick tangle of roots. So
for many years you could hear the river floween beneath the ground
with a subdued gurgleen sound. Hunters avoided the wood, for some
careless persons had come here and fallen through the holes into the
rusheen tide. Their bodies were afterwards found floateen in Silent
Lake. One day my grandfather and two of his men came to see the
treacherous underground river; and they moved cautiously down the
stream till they came where it sank into a hole in the ground, that
looked like a huge sluice-way.

'My grandfather looked at the strange sight for a time, and then at
the great bridge of trees and boulders that lay across the original
course of the river. They wondered why he gazed at all so earnestly;
and why his eyes grew so bright. Then he slapped the capteen, who was
yet a boy, upon the back, and said:

'"Just the very place we want. Here we will have a quiet castle of
our own, where no limb of the law can find us."'

'"But you surely would not think of liveen in this dismal swamp?"
they all said at once.

'"My intensheen is notheen else," he replied. "Let us go away for
the present." Then they all left the wood, the young men wondereen
what my grandfather had in his head. A few days after this, my
grandfather and all his friends came with picks, and axes, and
crowbars into the swamp. No one knew yet what plan he had formed.
Leadeen them to the bridge that I have described, he said:

'"I want that bridge cut away."