Thou
shalt yet see me as the Slain's Chooser would see her speech-friend;
for there is much to do ere we win wheat-harvest in Burgdale.'
Therewith they stepped together on to the level ground of the waste,
and saw Bow-may sitting on a stone hard by, and Wood-wise standing
beside her bending his bow. Bow-may smiled on Gold-mane and rose up,
and they all went on together, turning so that they went nearly
alongside the wall of the Vale, but westering a little; then the Sun-
beam said:
'Many a time have I trodden this heath alongside our rock-wall; for
if ye wend a little further as our faces are turned, ye come to the
crags over the place where the Shivering Flood goeth out of Shadowy
Vale. There when ye have clomb a little may'st thou stand on the
edge of the rock-wall, and look down and behold the Flood swirling
and eddying in the black gorge of the rocks, and see presently the
reek of the force go up, and hear the thunder of the waters as they
pour over it: and all this about us now is as the garden of our
house--is it not so, Bow-may?'
'Yea,' said she, 'and there are goodly cluster-berries to be gotten
hereabout in the autumn; many a time have the Sun-beam and I reddened
our lips with them.
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