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    The Blue Man From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899
    The Blue Man From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899
    The Blue Man From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899
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    The Blue Man From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899

    By Mary Hartwell Catherwood

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Blue Man From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 - Mary Hartwell Catherwood

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      Title: The Blue Man

             From Mackinac And Lake Stories, 1899

      Author: Mary Hartwell Catherwood

      Release Date: October 30, 2007 [EBook #23249]

      Last Updated: January 5, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BLUE MAN ***

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      THE BLUE MAN

      From Mackinac And Lake Stories, 1899

      By Mary Hartwell Catherwood

      The lake was like a meadow full of running streams. Far off indeed it seemed frozen with countless wind-paths traversing the ice, so level and motionless was the surface under a gray sky. But summer rioted in verdure over the cliffs to the very beaches. From the high greenery of the island could be heard the tink-tank of a bell where some cow sighed amid the delicious gloom.

      East of the Giant's Stairway in a cove are two round rocks with young cedars springing from them. It is easy to scramble to the flat top of the first one and sit in open ambush undetected by passers. The world's majority is unobservant. Children with their nurses, lovers, bicyclists who have left their wheels behind, excursionists—fortunately headed towards this spot in their one available hour—an endless procession, tramp by on the rough, wave-lapped margin, never wearing it smooth.

      Amused by the unconsciousness of the reviewed, I found myself unexpectedly classed with the world's majority. For on the east round rock, a few yards from my seat on the west round rock, behold a man had arranged himself, his back against the cedars, without attracting notice. While the gray weather lightened and wine-red streaks on the lake began to alternate with translucent greens, and I was watching mauve plumes spring from a distant steamer before

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