swimming-pond

“For a number of years he has been engaged in filling the holes with stone to protect his cattle, but the boys still use the north-east hole as a swimming-pond in the summer.”

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science

“The nesting season was now over, as well as the song season; the birds, therefore, were less to be seen, but the drying of the streams had concentrated much life in the swimming-pond.”

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned

“There was plenty in the swimming-pond yet, and the boys realized that this had become a gathering place for those wild things that were”

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned

“As a matter of fact, it was the swimming-pond that turned the day.”

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned

“Of course, this greatly increased his general interest in the swimming-pond, and he chiefly was responsible for the making of a canoe later on.”

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned

“The road goes as far as the creek," suggested Yan; "let's make a raft there an 'take the lot in it down to the swimming-pond; that'd be real”

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned

“We've got the best camp -- have the swimming-pond, and we are the oldest Tribe, not to speak of the success we had in a certain leetle business not long ago which the youngest of us kin remember, "and Guy grinned in appreciation of this evident reference to his exploit.”

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned