22 LUCY AMONG THE MOUNTAINS.

among the hills, when they were coming across
the stream.

“ Very likely,” said her father, in reply ; and
there the conversation ceased. They were all
tired, and so they rode on for nearly half an hour
in silence.

The road was generally up hill, though it was
level sometimes for a short distance ; and some-
times it even went down a little way, and then
up again. It curved about also, winding along
around rocks and precipices, and sometimes up
narrow ravines. At one place there was a great
tree growing out from the brink of a precipice by
the side of the road, far above them; and the
tree hung over so far, that Lucy was afraid that
it would fall down upon their heads. But her
father said that he thought there was no danger.
They could hear the river roaring through the
valley far below them on one side of the road,
and now and then they got a glimpse of the wa-
ter, which was bright by the reflection of the sky.

At length they came to ground which seemed
to be more smooth. There began to be a fence
of rails on one side of the road. Presently the
fence stopped, and a wall began. The wall was
made of rough stones piled up in a row. Pretty
soon there was a wall on the other side of the road