Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


Saxon laughed her joy and held on close to his heels, splashing
through pools, crawling hand and foot up the slippery faces of
water-worn rocks, and worming under trunks of old fallen trees.


"They ain't no real bed-rock in the whole mountain," Billy
elucidated, "so the stream cuts deeper'n deeper, an' that keeps
the sides cavin' in. They're as steep as they can be without
fallin' down. A little farther up, the canyon ain't much more'n a
crack in the ground--but a mighty deep one if anybody should ask
you. You can spit across it an' break your neck in it."

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