Page 123 - Adventures in shadow-land

“ Then, how could you have caught the frog?”
li Through the power you would have given us.

But nothing can stop us or molest us now.”
Then the boat went on, down the brook, and

nothing more happened to stop her progress. On
she went, till at last, all of a sudden, the mists

and vapors before her vanished, and Eva saw, just
in front of her, what seemed the open mouth of a

huge serpent ready to devour them. But the boat
went oil until it came near the terrible jaws, and

then Eva saw that they were only two great rocks,
one on each side of the brook,— and the boat

passed unhurt between them. And just beyond
them the water stopped short \ and then the boat

came to a pause, and nothing that Eva could say
or do would move her one inch.

And then another of the trout put up his head,
and told Eva she should bid the boat go to the

shore; which she d id ; and the boat obeyed,
and then stopped again, her bow resting on the
shore.

“ We can do no more for you,” the trout then

told her. ^W c must now go home, for there,
where the broolc stops, the Enchanted River runs.