It was shallow brook which had its prettiest day in winter when it was frozen;in the first of spring ,it run clearly, but after that it became stagnant and around July it dried. The brook was a landmark ha used when he directed friends to his house. You get to a brook with a stone bridge, he'd say The bridge wasn't really stone;its guard walls were made of rectangular concrete slabs, stacked about three feet hight, but he liked stone bridges and he called it one. On a slope above