Camping out by Charles Asbury Stephens

Author:Charles Asbury Stephens
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J. R. Osgood and company

"Old Hughy's presentiments served to keep us wakeful and vigilant; but several days passed without the least sign of any one's being near us, and we were beginning to forget it, when one evening I saw what certainly justified Hughy's suspicions. I had left the fire to bring some water from the brook, which was within a few rods of us. I had stooped to dip it up, when, as I rose, I caught a glimpse of what I took to be a man, standing at a little distance. In an instant it vanished behind a shrubby fir. I felt quite positive; yet it was so dark, and whatever I had seen was out of sight so quick, that I knew I was very liable to have been mistaken. Ghecking my first impulse to run to the. camp and give an alarm, I decided to say nothing at present, but watch. "The evening passed. ~By nine o'clock, Hughy and Zeke were both asleep. I lay down, but kept awake.

"Hour after hour went by. At length, the moon rose. It was one of those still, late autumn nights when frogs are silent, and birds and insects are gone; when only the larger beasts of prey are abroad. There were no owls that night. The leaves had fallen, and covered the ground with a dry and rustling carpet.

"After a while I began to distinguish footsteps among them at a distance. They were faint and stealthy; and I was somewhat in doubt whether it were not my fancy, till the sharp snap of a twig convinced me. It might easily have been a 'lucivee,' or a 'fisher,' or a bear; but somehow I at once connected it with what I had seen in the evening.

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