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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 32 [[underline]] Lake & Mts. [[/underline]] [[underline]] Sept. 1 [[/underline]] The water lilies are nearly gone now. Sept. 6. After heavy rain the mountains are coming into view again - the opposite shore line, green tree hills with sun ^[[insertion]] & shadow [[/insertion]] over, & behind the line of the green ridge outlined against snow white tossing mist - tossing up against dark blue [[image - pen drawing of line representing ridge of a mountain]] mt. mass lost in clouds. Patches of blue sky opening & shutting - tent lighted as clouds thin. White mist reflected in the lake above the dark mt. outline reflection. [[underline]] Sept. 10 [[/underline]] - The Nortons after service took me for a farewell paddle up nor'west cove & Tucker Brook. After a long gray period the sky was blue & ^[[insertion]] in [[/insertion]] the ^[[insertion]] brook the [[/insertion]] boat went through reflected clouds - the brook was full of the white puffs - beautiful cumulus clouds. Rich red maples were reflected & our short bank thick with pink ^[[insertion]] & deeper [[/insertion]] ripening cranberries made a reflection [[insertion]] as [[/insertion]] of a long sod. The brook wound about bordered by fine long ^[[insertion]] marsh [[/insertion]] grass with slender ^[[insertion]] shining whitish [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] swaying [[/strikethrough]] tips, sweet gale & fragrant ^[[insertion]] ripening [[/insertion]] fern. At one bend a [[insertion]] row [[/insertion]] boat was lying in shore & inside the trees we could just make out a small tent. Hunters, probably. We trembled for the loon outside but could
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09-27-14 EW If the hunter's prey was the loon, you would tremble for the loon. I think your tremble interpretation is correct.
last line: work tentatively rendered as "tumbled" looks like "trembled" to me.
09-27-14-BW Believe third word on last line to be misspelling of "hunted" which would make the sentence (continued on next page) read: We hunted for the loon outside but could but envy the party in their quiet nook.