Reelfoot Is, And Has Always Been, A Lake Of Mystery.in Places It Is Bottomless. Other Places The Skeletons Of The Cypress-trees That Went Down When The Earth Sank, Still Stand Upright So That If The Sun Shines From The Right Quarter, And The Water Is Less Muddy Than Common, A Man, Peering Face Downward Into Its Depths, Sees, Or Thinks He Sees, Down Below Him The Bare Top-limbs Upstretching Like Drowned Men's Fingers, All Coated With The Mud Of Years And Bandaged With Pennons Of The Green Lake Slime.
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Reelfoot Is, And Has Always Been, A
Irvin S. Cobb
Reelfoot Is, And Has Always Been, A Lake Of Mystery.in Places It Is Bottomless. Other Places The Skeletons Of The Cypress-trees That Went Down When The Earth Sank, Still Stand Upright So That If The Sun Shines From The Right Quarter, And The Water Is Less Muddy Than Common, A Man, Peering Face Downward Into Its Depths, Sees, Or Thinks He Sees, Down Below Him The Bare Top-limbs Upstretching Like Drowned Men's Fingers, All Coated With The Mud Of Years And Bandaged With Pennons Of The Green Lake Slime.
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