text:  Sometimes as he paced backwards and forwards upon his lonesome watch the eye of the young man rested for a while upon the dull swampy landscape the chief beauty of which at the moment was a slight haze that hovered over stream and marsh and stunted willow and distant hill tinged with a golden hue from the slanting rays of the sun; the only living sights and sounds of which were busy flights of gnats whirling up and down with drowsy hum; an occasional frog that splashed from the opposite shore into the water with an uneasy croak; and one solitary fisherman who after having drawn up his boat among the rushes on the river's bank near the opening upon the "broad " and left his line to float along the lazy stream seemed to have lain down in his broad flat-bottomed punt to sleep at his ease