From time to time they scared out
various animals from the brush, chasing the creatures after the
fashion of dogs and children. Whenever they came to a stream,
invariably all four splashed through it, shouting and laughing with
delight.
However, there were but two of these streams, and both of them quite
small. Their banks indicated that either the season was very far
advanced, or else that the streams were at one time vastly larger.
"A rather significant fact," the doctor afterward commented.
Nevertheless, the most impressive thing about all that the doctor
learned that day was the strange mariner in which the excursion came
to an end. The quartet was at that moment climbing a small hill,
apparently on the edge of an extensive range of mountains. An
occasional tree, something like an oak, broke the monotony of the
brush at this point, and yet it was not until Rolla was quite at the
top of the knoll that Kinney could see surrounding country with any
degree of clearness.
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