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+Title: The Man In The Reservoir
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+Author: Charles Fenno Hoffman
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+THE MAN IN THE RESERVOIR
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+By Charles Fenno Hoffman
+
+
+You may see some of the best society in New York on the top of the
+Distributing Reservoir, any of these fine October mornings. There were
+two or three carriages in waiting, and half a dozen senatorial-looking
+mothers with young children, pacing the parapet, as we basked there the
+other day in the sunshine-now watching the pickerel that glide along the
+lucid edges of the black pool within, and now looking off upon the scene
+of rich and wondrous variety that spreads along the two rivers on either
+side.
+
+"They may talk of Alpheus and Arethusa," murmured an idling sophomore,
+who had found his way thither during recitation hours, "but the Croton
+in passing over an arm of the sea at Spuyten Duyvil, and bursting to
+sight again in this truncated pyramid, beats it all hollow. By George,
+too, the bay yonder looks as blue as ever the Ęgean Sea to Byron's eye,
+gazing from the Acropolis! But the painted foliage on these crags!-the
+Greeks must have dreamed of such a vegetable phenomenon in the midst of
+their grayish olive groves, or they never would have supplied the want
+of it in their landscape by embroidering their marble temples with gay
+colors. Did you see that pike break, sir?"
+
+"I did not."
+
+"Zounds! his silver fin flashed upon the black Acheron, like a restless
+soul that hoped yet to mount from the pool."
+
+"The place seems suggestive of fancies to you?" we observed in reply to
+the rattlepate.
+
+"It is, indeed, for I have done up a good deal of anxious thinking
+within a circle of a few yards where that fish broke just now."
+
+"A singular place for meditation-the middle of the Reservoir!"
+
+"You look incredulous, sir; but it's a fact. A fellow can never tell,
+until he is tried, in what situation his most earnest meditations may be
+concentrated. I am boring you, though?"
+
+"Not at all. But you seem so familiar with the spot, I wish you could
+tell me why that ladder leading down to the water is lashed against the
+stonework in yonder corner."
+
+"That ladder," said the young man, brightening at the question-"why, the
+position, perhaps the very existence, of that ladder resulted from my
+meditations in the Reservoir, at which you smiled just now. Shall I tell
+you all about them?"
+
+"Pray do."
+
+"Well, you have seen the notice forbidding any one to fish in the
+Reservoir. Now, when I read that warning, the spirit of the thing struck
+me at once as inferring nothing more than that one should not sully
+the temperance potations of our citizens by steeping bait in it, of any
+kind; but you probably know the common way of taking pike with a slip
+noose of delicate wire. I was determined to have a touch at the fellows
+with this kind of tackle.
+
+"I chose a moonlight night; and an hour before the edifice was closed
+to visitors, I secreted myself within the walls, determined to pass the
+night on the top. All went as I could wish it. The night proved cloudy,
+but it was only a variable drift of broken clouds which obscured the
+moon. I had a walking cane-rod with me which would reach to the margin
+of the water, and several feet beyond if necessary. To this was attached
+the wire, about fifteen inches in length.
+
+"I prowled along the parapet for a considerable time, but not a single
+fish could I see. The clouds made a flickering light and shade, that
+wholly foiled my steadfast gaze. I was convinced that should they come
+up thicker, my whole night's venture would be thrown away. 'Why should
+I not descend the sloping wall and get nearer on a level with the fish,
+for thus alone can I hope to see one?' The question had hardly shaped
+itself in my mind before I had one leg over the iron railing.
+
+"If you look around you will see now that there are some half-dozen
+weeds growing here and there, amid the fissures of the solid masonry. In
+one of the fissures from whence these spring, I planted a foot and began
+my descent. The Reservoir was fuller than it is now, and a few strides
+would have carried me to the margin of the water. Holding on to the
+cleft above, I felt round with one foot for a place to plant it below
+me.
+
+"In that moment the flap of a pound pike made me look round, and the
+roots of the weed upon which I partially depended gave way as I was in
+the act of turning. Sir, one's senses are sharpened in deadly peril; as
+I live now, I distinctly heard the bells of Trinity chiming midnight, as
+I rose to the surface the next instant, immersed in the stone caldron,
+where I must swim for my life Heaven only could tell how long!
+
+"I am a capital swimmer; and this naturally gave me a degree of
+self-possession. Falling as I had, I of course had pitched out some
+distance from the sloping parapet. A few strokes brought me to the edge.
+I really was not yet certain but that I could clamber up the face of the
+wall anywhere. I hoped that I could. I felt certain at least there
+was some spot where I might get hold with my hands, even if I did not
+ultimately ascend it.
+
+"I tried the nearest spot. The inclination of the wall was so vertical
+that it did not even rest me to lean against it. I felt with my hands
+and with my feet. Surely, I thought, there must be some fissure like
+those in which that ill-omened weed had found a place for its root!
+
+"There was none. My fingers became sore in busying themselves with the
+harsh and inhospitable stones. My feet slipped from the smooth and
+slimy masonry beneath the water; and several times my face came in rude
+contact with the wall, when my foothold gave way on the instant that I
+seemed to have found some diminutive rocky cleat upon which I could stay
+myself.
+
+"Sir, did you ever see a rat drowned in a half-filled hogshead-how he
+swims round, and round, and round; and after vainly trying the sides
+again and again with his paws, fixes his eyes upon the upper rim as if
+he would _look himself_ out of his watery prison?
+
+"I thought of the miserable vermin, thought of him as I had often
+watched thus his dying agonies, when a cruel urchin of eight or ten.
+Boys are horribly cruel, sir; boys, women, and savages. All childlike
+things are cruel; cruel from a want of thought and from perverse
+ingenuity, although by instinct each of these is so tender. You may not
+have observed it, but a savage is as tender to his own young as a boy
+is to a favorite puppy-the same boy that will torture a kitten out of
+existence. I thought then, I say, of the rat drowning in a half-filled
+cask of water, and lifting his gaze out of the vessel as he grew more
+and more desperate, and I flung myself on my back, and, floating thus,
+fixed my eyes upon the face of the moon.
+
+"The moon is well enough in her way, however you may look at her; but
+her appearance is, to say the least of it, peculiar to a man floating on
+his back in the centre of a stone tank, with a dead wall of some fifteen
+or twenty feet rising squarely on every side of him!" (The young man
+smiled bitterly as he said this, and shuddered once or twice before
+he went on musingly.) "The last time I had noted the planet with any
+emotion she was on the wane. Mary was with me; I had brought her out
+here one morning to look at the view from the top of the Reservoir. She
+said little of the scene, but as we talked of our old childish loves,
+I saw that its fresh features were incorporating themselves with tender
+memories of the past, and I was content.
+
+"There was a rich golden haze upon the landscape, and as my own spirits
+rose amid the voluptuous atmosphere, she pointed to the waning planet,
+discernible like a faint gash in the welkin, and wondered how long it
+would be before the leaves would fall. Strange girl! did she mean to
+rebuke my joyous mood, as if we had no right to be happy while Nature,
+withering in her pomp, and the sickly moon, wasting in the blaze of
+noontide, were there to remind us of 'the-gone-forever'? 'They will all
+renew themselves, dear Mary,' said I, encouragingly, 'and there is
+one that will ever keep tryst alike with thee and nature through all
+seasons, if thou wilt but be true to one of us, and remain as now a
+child of nature.'
+
+"A tear sprang to her eye, and then searching her pocket for her
+card-case, she remembered an engagement to be present at Miss Lawson's
+opening of fall bonnets at two o'clock!
+
+"And yet, dear, wild, wayward Mary, I thought of her now. You have
+probably outlived this sort of thing, sir; but I, looking at the moon,
+as I floated there upturned to her yellow light, thought of the loved
+being whose tears I knew would flow when she heard of my singular fate,
+at once so grotesque, yet melancholy to awfulness.
+
+"And how often we have talked, too, of that Carian shepherd who spent
+his damp nights upon the hills, gazing as I do on the lustrous planet!
+Who will revel with her amid those old superstitions? Who, from our own
+unlegended woods, will evoke their yet undetected, haunting spirits? Who
+peer with her in prying scrutiny into nature's laws, and challenge
+the whispers of poetry from the voiceless throat of matter? Who laugh
+merrily over the stupid guesswork of pedants, that never mingled with
+the infinitude of nature, through love exhaustless and all-embracing, as
+we have? Poor girl! she will be companionless.
+
+"Alas! companionless forever-save in the exciting stages of some brisk
+flirtation. She will live hereafter by feeding other hearts with love's
+lore she has learned from me, and then, Pygmalion-like, grow fond of the
+images she has herself endowed with semblance of divinity, until they
+seem to breathe back the mystery the soul can truly catch from only one.
+
+"How anxious she will be lest the coroner shall have discovered any of
+her notes in my pocket!
+
+"I felt chilly as this last reflection crossed my mind, partly at
+thought of the coroner, partly at the idea of Mary being unwillingly
+compelled to wear mourning for me, in case of such a disclosure of our
+engagement. It is a provoking thing for a girl of nineteen to have to go
+into mourning for a deceased lover at the beginning of her second winter
+in the metropolis.
+
+"The water, though, with my motionless position, must have had something
+to do with my chilliness. I see, sir, you think that I tell my story
+with great levity; but indeed, indeed I should grow delirious did I
+venture to hold steadily to the awfulness of my feelings the greater
+part of that night. I think, indeed, I must have been most of the time
+hysterical with horror, for the vibrating emotions I have recapitulated
+did pass through my brain even as I have detailed them.
+
+"But as I now became calm in thought, I summoned up again some
+resolution of action.
+
+"I will begin at that corner (said I), and swim around the whole
+inclosure. I will swim slowly and again feel the sides of the tank with
+my feet. If die I must, let me perish at least from well-directed though
+exhausting effort, not sink from mere bootless weariness in sustaining
+myself till the morning shall bring relief.
+
+"The sides of the place seemed to grow higher as I now kept my watery
+course beneath them. It was not altogether a dead pull. I had some
+variety of emotion in making my circuit. When I swam in the shadow, it
+looked to me more cheerful beyond in the moonlight. When I swam in the
+moonlight, I had the hope of making some discovery when I should again
+reach the shadow. I turned several times on my back to rest just where
+those wavy lines would meet. The stars looked viciously bright to me
+from the bottom of that well; there was such a company of them; they
+were so glad in their lustrous revelry; and they had such space to move
+in! I was alone, sad to despair, in a strange element, prisoned, and a
+solitary gazer upon their mocking chorus. And yet there was nothing else
+with which I could hold communion!
+
+"I turned upon my breast and struck out almost frantically once more.
+The stars were forgotten; the moon, the very world of which I as yet
+formed a part, my poor Mary herself, were forgotten. I thought only of
+the strong man there perishing; of me in my lusty manhood, in the sharp
+vigor of my dawning prime, with faculties illimitable, with senses all
+alert, battling there with physical obstacles which men like myself had
+brought together for my undoing. The Eternal could never have willed
+this thing! I could not and I would not perish thus. And I grew strong
+in insolence of self-trust; and I laughed aloud as I dashed the sluggish
+water from side to side.
+
+"Then came an emotion of pity for myself of wild regret; of sorrow, Oh,
+infinite for a fate so desolate, a doom so dreary, so heart-sickening!
+You may laugh at the contradiction if you will, sir, but I felt that
+I could sacrifice my own life on the instant, to redeem another
+fellow-creature from such a place of horror, from an end so piteous.
+My soul and my vital spirit seemed in that desperate moment to be
+separating; while one in parting grieved over the deplorable fate of the
+other.
+
+"And then I prayed! I prayed, why or wherefore I know not. It was not
+from fear. It could not have been in hope. The days of miracles are
+past, and there was no natural law by whose providential interposition I
+could be saved. I did not pray; it prayed of itself, my soul within me.
+
+"Was the calmness that I now felt torpidity--the torpidity that precedes
+dissolution to the strong swimmer who, sinking from exhaustion, must at
+last add a bubble to the wave as he suffocates beneath the element which
+now denied his mastery? If it were so, how fortunate was it that my
+floating rod at that moment attracted my attention as it dashed through
+the water by me. I saw on the instant that a fish had entangled itself
+in the wire noose. The rod quivered, plunged, came again to the surface,
+and rippled the water as it shot in arrowy flight from side to side of
+the tank. At last, driven toward the southeast corner of the Reservoir,
+the small end seemed to have got foul somewhere. The brazen butt, which,
+every time the fish sounded, was thrown up to the moon, now sank by its
+own weight, showing that the other end must be fast. But the cornered
+fish, evidently anchored somewhere by that short wire, floundered
+several times to the surface before I thought of striking out to the
+spot.
+
+"The water is low now, and tolerably clear. You may see the very ledge
+there, sir, in yonder corner, on which the small end of my rod rested
+when I secured that pike with my hands. I did not take him from the
+slip-noose, however; but, standing upon the ledge, handled the rod in a
+workmanlike manner, as I flung that pound pickerel over the iron railing
+upon the top' of the parapet. The rod, as I have told you, barely
+reached from the railing to the water. It was a heavy, strong bass rod
+which I had borrowed in the 'Spirit of the Times' office; and when I
+discovered that the fish at the end of the wire made a strong enough
+knot to prevent me from drawing my tackle away from the railing around
+which it twined itself as I threw, why, as you can at once see, I had
+but little difficulty in making my way up the face of the wall with
+such assistance. The ladder which attracted your notice is, as you see,
+lashed to the iron railing in the identical spot where I thus made my
+escape; and, for fear of similar accidents, they have placed another
+one in the corresponding corner of the other compartment of the tank
+ever since my remarkable night's adventure in the Reservoir."
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+    <h1>
+      THE MAN IN THE RESERVOIR
+    </h1>
+    <h2>
+      By Charles Fenno Hoffman
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      You may see some of the best society in New York on the top of the
+      Distributing Reservoir, any of these fine October mornings. There were two
+      or three carriages in waiting, and half a dozen senatorial-looking mothers
+      with young children, pacing the parapet, as we basked there the other day
+      in the sunshine-now watching the pickerel that glide along the lucid edges
+      of the black pool within, and now looking off upon the scene of rich and
+      wondrous variety that spreads along the two rivers on either side.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "They may talk of Alpheus and Arethusa," murmured an idling sophomore, who
+      had found his way thither during recitation hours, "but the Croton in
+      passing over an arm of the sea at Spuyten Duyvil, and bursting to sight
+      again in this truncated pyramid, beats it all hollow. By George, too, the
+      bay yonder looks as blue as ever the Ęgean Sea to Byron's eye, gazing from
+      the Acropolis! But the painted foliage on these crags!-the Greeks must
+      have dreamed of such a vegetable phenomenon in the midst of their grayish
+      olive groves, or they never would have supplied the want of it in their
+      landscape by embroidering their marble temples with gay colors. Did you
+      see that pike break, sir?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I did not."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Zounds! his silver fin flashed upon the black Acheron, like a restless
+      soul that hoped yet to mount from the pool."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The place seems suggestive of fancies to you?" we observed in reply to
+      the rattlepate.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It is, indeed, for I have done up a good deal of anxious thinking within
+      a circle of a few yards where that fish broke just now."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "A singular place for meditation-the middle of the Reservoir!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You look incredulous, sir; but it's a fact. A fellow can never tell,
+      until he is tried, in what situation his most earnest meditations may be
+      concentrated. I am boring you, though?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Not at all. But you seem so familiar with the spot, I wish you could tell
+      me why that ladder leading down to the water is lashed against the
+      stonework in yonder corner."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That ladder," said the young man, brightening at the question-"why, the
+      position, perhaps the very existence, of that ladder resulted from my
+      meditations in the Reservoir, at which you smiled just now. Shall I tell
+      you all about them?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Pray do."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well, you have seen the notice forbidding any one to fish in the
+      Reservoir. Now, when I read that warning, the spirit of the thing struck
+      me at once as inferring nothing more than that one should not sully the
+      temperance potations of our citizens by steeping bait in it, of any kind;
+      but you probably know the common way of taking pike with a slip noose of
+      delicate wire. I was determined to have a touch at the fellows with this
+      kind of tackle.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I chose a moonlight night; and an hour before the edifice was closed to
+      visitors, I secreted myself within the walls, determined to pass the night
+      on the top. All went as I could wish it. The night proved cloudy, but it
+      was only a variable drift of broken clouds which obscured the moon. I had
+      a walking cane-rod with me which would reach to the margin of the water,
+      and several feet beyond if necessary. To this was attached the wire, about
+      fifteen inches in length.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I prowled along the parapet for a considerable time, but not a single
+      fish could I see. The clouds made a flickering light and shade, that
+      wholly foiled my steadfast gaze. I was convinced that should they come up
+      thicker, my whole night's venture would be thrown away. 'Why should I not
+      descend the sloping wall and get nearer on a level with the fish, for thus
+      alone can I hope to see one?' The question had hardly shaped itself in my
+      mind before I had one leg over the iron railing.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If you look around you will see now that there are some half-dozen weeds
+      growing here and there, amid the fissures of the solid masonry. In one of
+      the fissures from whence these spring, I planted a foot and began my
+      descent. The Reservoir was fuller than it is now, and a few strides would
+      have carried me to the margin of the water. Holding on to the cleft above,
+      I felt round with one foot for a place to plant it below me.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "In that moment the flap of a pound pike made me look round, and the roots
+      of the weed upon which I partially depended gave way as I was in the act
+      of turning. Sir, one's senses are sharpened in deadly peril; as I live
+      now, I distinctly heard the bells of Trinity chiming midnight, as I rose
+      to the surface the next instant, immersed in the stone caldron, where I
+      must swim for my life Heaven only could tell how long!
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I am a capital swimmer; and this naturally gave me a degree of
+      self-possession. Falling as I had, I of course had pitched out some
+      distance from the sloping parapet. A few strokes brought me to the edge. I
+      really was not yet certain but that I could clamber up the face of the
+      wall anywhere. I hoped that I could. I felt certain at least there was
+      some spot where I might get hold with my hands, even if I did not
+      ultimately ascend it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I tried the nearest spot. The inclination of the wall was so vertical
+      that it did not even rest me to lean against it. I felt with my hands and
+      with my feet. Surely, I thought, there must be some fissure like those in
+      which that ill-omened weed had found a place for its root!
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There was none. My fingers became sore in busying themselves with the
+      harsh and inhospitable stones. My feet slipped from the smooth and slimy
+      masonry beneath the water; and several times my face came in rude contact
+      with the wall, when my foothold gave way on the instant that I seemed to
+      have found some diminutive rocky cleat upon which I could stay myself.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Sir, did you ever see a rat drowned in a half-filled hogshead-how he
+      swims round, and round, and round; and after vainly trying the sides again
+      and again with his paws, fixes his eyes upon the upper rim as if he would
+      <i>look himself</i> out of his watery prison?
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I thought of the miserable vermin, thought of him as I had often watched
+      thus his dying agonies, when a cruel urchin of eight or ten. Boys are
+      horribly cruel, sir; boys, women, and savages. All childlike things are
+      cruel; cruel from a want of thought and from perverse ingenuity, although
+      by instinct each of these is so tender. You may not have observed it, but
+      a savage is as tender to his own young as a boy is to a favorite puppy-the
+      same boy that will torture a kitten out of existence. I thought then, I
+      say, of the rat drowning in a half-filled cask of water, and lifting his
+      gaze out of the vessel as he grew more and more desperate, and I flung
+      myself on my back, and, floating thus, fixed my eyes upon the face of the
+      moon.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The moon is well enough in her way, however you may look at her; but her
+      appearance is, to say the least of it, peculiar to a man floating on his
+      back in the centre of a stone tank, with a dead wall of some fifteen or
+      twenty feet rising squarely on every side of him!" (The young man smiled
+      bitterly as he said this, and shuddered once or twice before he went on
+      musingly.) "The last time I had noted the planet with any emotion she was
+      on the wane. Mary was with me; I had brought her out here one morning to
+      look at the view from the top of the Reservoir. She said little of the
+      scene, but as we talked of our old childish loves, I saw that its fresh
+      features were incorporating themselves with tender memories of the past,
+      and I was content.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There was a rich golden haze upon the landscape, and as my own spirits
+      rose amid the voluptuous atmosphere, she pointed to the waning planet,
+      discernible like a faint gash in the welkin, and wondered how long it
+      would be before the leaves would fall. Strange girl! did she mean to
+      rebuke my joyous mood, as if we had no right to be happy while Nature,
+      withering in her pomp, and the sickly moon, wasting in the blaze of
+      noontide, were there to remind us of 'the-gone-forever'? 'They will all
+      renew themselves, dear Mary,' said I, encouragingly, 'and there is one
+      that will ever keep tryst alike with thee and nature through all seasons,
+      if thou wilt but be true to one of us, and remain as now a child of
+      nature.'
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "A tear sprang to her eye, and then searching her pocket for her
+      card-case, she remembered an engagement to be present at Miss Lawson's
+      opening of fall bonnets at two o'clock!
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And yet, dear, wild, wayward Mary, I thought of her now. You have
+      probably outlived this sort of thing, sir; but I, looking at the moon, as
+      I floated there upturned to her yellow light, thought of the loved being
+      whose tears I knew would flow when she heard of my singular fate, at once
+      so grotesque, yet melancholy to awfulness.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And how often we have talked, too, of that Carian shepherd who spent his
+      damp nights upon the hills, gazing as I do on the lustrous planet! Who
+      will revel with her amid those old superstitions? Who, from our own
+      unlegended woods, will evoke their yet undetected, haunting spirits? Who
+      peer with her in prying scrutiny into nature's laws, and challenge the
+      whispers of poetry from the voiceless throat of matter? Who laugh merrily
+      over the stupid guesswork of pedants, that never mingled with the
+      infinitude of nature, through love exhaustless and all-embracing, as we
+      have? Poor girl! she will be companionless.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Alas! companionless forever-save in the exciting stages of some brisk
+      flirtation. She will live hereafter by feeding other hearts with love's
+      lore she has learned from me, and then, Pygmalion-like, grow fond of the
+      images she has herself endowed with semblance of divinity, until they seem
+      to breathe back the mystery the soul can truly catch from only one.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "How anxious she will be lest the coroner shall have discovered any of her
+      notes in my pocket!
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I felt chilly as this last reflection crossed my mind, partly at thought
+      of the coroner, partly at the idea of Mary being unwillingly compelled to
+      wear mourning for me, in case of such a disclosure of our engagement. It
+      is a provoking thing for a girl of nineteen to have to go into mourning
+      for a deceased lover at the beginning of her second winter in the
+      metropolis.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The water, though, with my motionless position, must have had something
+      to do with my chilliness. I see, sir, you think that I tell my story with
+      great levity; but indeed, indeed I should grow delirious did I venture to
+      hold steadily to the awfulness of my feelings the greater part of that
+      night. I think, indeed, I must have been most of the time hysterical with
+      horror, for the vibrating emotions I have recapitulated did pass through
+      my brain even as I have detailed them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "But as I now became calm in thought, I summoned up again some resolution
+      of action.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I will begin at that corner (said I), and swim around the whole
+      inclosure. I will swim slowly and again feel the sides of the tank with my
+      feet. If die I must, let me perish at least from well-directed though
+      exhausting effort, not sink from mere bootless weariness in sustaining
+      myself till the morning shall bring relief.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The sides of the place seemed to grow higher as I now kept my watery
+      course beneath them. It was not altogether a dead pull. I had some variety
+      of emotion in making my circuit. When I swam in the shadow, it looked to
+      me more cheerful beyond in the moonlight. When I swam in the moonlight, I
+      had the hope of making some discovery when I should again reach the
+      shadow. I turned several times on my back to rest just where those wavy
+      lines would meet. The stars looked viciously bright to me from the bottom
+      of that well; there was such a company of them; they were so glad in their
+      lustrous revelry; and they had such space to move in! I was alone, sad to
+      despair, in a strange element, prisoned, and a solitary gazer upon their
+      mocking chorus. And yet there was nothing else with which I could hold
+      communion!
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I turned upon my breast and struck out almost frantically once more. The
+      stars were forgotten; the moon, the very world of which I as yet formed a
+      part, my poor Mary herself, were forgotten. I thought only of the strong
+      man there perishing; of me in my lusty manhood, in the sharp vigor of my
+      dawning prime, with faculties illimitable, with senses all alert, battling
+      there with physical obstacles which men like myself had brought together
+      for my undoing. The Eternal could never have willed this thing! I could
+      not and I would not perish thus. And I grew strong in insolence of
+      self-trust; and I laughed aloud as I dashed the sluggish water from side
+      to side.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Then came an emotion of pity for myself of wild regret; of sorrow, Oh,
+      infinite for a fate so desolate, a doom so dreary, so heart-sickening! You
+      may laugh at the contradiction if you will, sir, but I felt that I could
+      sacrifice my own life on the instant, to redeem another fellow-creature
+      from such a place of horror, from an end so piteous. My soul and my vital
+      spirit seemed in that desperate moment to be separating; while one in
+      parting grieved over the deplorable fate of the other.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And then I prayed! I prayed, why or wherefore I know not. It was not from
+      fear. It could not have been in hope. The days of miracles are past, and
+      there was no natural law by whose providential interposition I could be
+      saved. I did not pray; it prayed of itself, my soul within me.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Was the calmness that I now felt torpidity&mdash;the torpidity that
+      precedes dissolution to the strong swimmer who, sinking from exhaustion,
+      must at last add a bubble to the wave as he suffocates beneath the element
+      which now denied his mastery? If it were so, how fortunate was it that my
+      floating rod at that moment attracted my attention as it dashed through
+      the water by me. I saw on the instant that a fish had entangled itself in
+      the wire noose. The rod quivered, plunged, came again to the surface, and
+      rippled the water as it shot in arrowy flight from side to side of the
+      tank. At last, driven toward the southeast corner of the Reservoir, the
+      small end seemed to have got foul somewhere. The brazen butt, which, every
+      time the fish sounded, was thrown up to the moon, now sank by its own
+      weight, showing that the other end must be fast. But the cornered fish,
+      evidently anchored somewhere by that short wire, floundered several times
+      to the surface before I thought of striking out to the spot.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The water is low now, and tolerably clear. You may see the very ledge
+      there, sir, in yonder corner, on which the small end of my rod rested when
+      I secured that pike with my hands. I did not take him from the slip-noose,
+      however; but, standing upon the ledge, handled the rod in a workmanlike
+      manner, as I flung that pound pickerel over the iron railing upon the top'
+      of the parapet. The rod, as I have told you, barely reached from the
+      railing to the water. It was a heavy, strong bass rod which I had borrowed
+      in the 'Spirit of the Times' office; and when I discovered that the fish
+      at the end of the wire made a strong enough knot to prevent me from
+      drawing my tackle away from the railing around which it twined itself as I
+      threw, why, as you can at once see, I had but little difficulty in making
+      my way up the face of the wall with such assistance. The ladder which
+      attracted your notice is, as you see, lashed to the iron railing in the
+      identical spot where I thus made my escape; and, for fear of similar
+      accidents, they have placed another one in the corresponding corner of the
+      other compartment of the tank ever since my remarkable night's adventure
+      in the Reservoir."
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+THE MAN IN THE RESERVOIR
+
+By Charles Fenno Hoffman
+
+
+You may see some of the best society in New York on the top of the
+Distributing Reservoir, any of these fine October mornings. There were
+two or three carriages in waiting, and half a dozen senatorial-looking
+mothers with young children, pacing the parapet, as we basked there the
+other day in the sunshine-now watching the pickerel that glide along the
+lucid edges of the black pool within, and now looking off upon the scene
+of rich and wondrous variety that spreads along the two rivers on either
+side.
+
+"They may talk of Alpheus and Arethusa," murmured an idling sophomore,
+who had found his way thither during recitation hours, "but the Croton
+in passing over an arm of the sea at Spuyten Duyvil, and bursting to
+sight again in this truncated pyramid, beats it all hollow. By George,
+too, the bay yonder looks as blue as ever the AEgean Sea to Byron's eye,
+gazing from the Acropolis! But the painted foliage on these crags!-the
+Greeks must have dreamed of such a vegetable phenomenon in the midst of
+their grayish olive groves, or they never would have supplied the want
+of it in their landscape by embroidering their marble temples with gay
+colors. Did you see that pike break, sir?"
+
+"I did not."
+
+"Zounds! his silver fin flashed upon the black Acheron, like a restless
+soul that hoped yet to mount from the pool."
+
+"The place seems suggestive of fancies to you?" we observed in reply to
+the rattlepate.
+
+"It is, indeed, for I have done up a good deal of anxious thinking
+within a circle of a few yards where that fish broke just now."
+
+"A singular place for meditation-the middle of the Reservoir!"
+
+"You look incredulous, sir; but it's a fact. A fellow can never tell,
+until he is tried, in what situation his most earnest meditations may be
+concentrated. I am boring you, though?"
+
+"Not at all. But you seem so familiar with the spot, I wish you could
+tell me why that ladder leading down to the water is lashed against the
+stonework in yonder corner."
+
+"That ladder," said the young man, brightening at the question-"why, the
+position, perhaps the very existence, of that ladder resulted from my
+meditations in the Reservoir, at which you smiled just now. Shall I tell
+you all about them?"
+
+"Pray do."
+
+"Well, you have seen the notice forbidding any one to fish in the
+Reservoir. Now, when I read that warning, the spirit of the thing struck
+me at once as inferring nothing more than that one should not sully
+the temperance potations of our citizens by steeping bait in it, of any
+kind; but you probably know the common way of taking pike with a slip
+noose of delicate wire. I was determined to have a touch at the fellows
+with this kind of tackle.
+
+"I chose a moonlight night; and an hour before the edifice was closed
+to visitors, I secreted myself within the walls, determined to pass the
+night on the top. All went as I could wish it. The night proved cloudy,
+but it was only a variable drift of broken clouds which obscured the
+moon. I had a walking cane-rod with me which would reach to the margin
+of the water, and several feet beyond if necessary. To this was attached
+the wire, about fifteen inches in length.
+
+"I prowled along the parapet for a considerable time, but not a single
+fish could I see. The clouds made a flickering light and shade, that
+wholly foiled my steadfast gaze. I was convinced that should they come
+up thicker, my whole night's venture would be thrown away. 'Why should
+I not descend the sloping wall and get nearer on a level with the fish,
+for thus alone can I hope to see one?' The question had hardly shaped
+itself in my mind before I had one leg over the iron railing.
+
+"If you look around you will see now that there are some half-dozen
+weeds growing here and there, amid the fissures of the solid masonry. In
+one of the fissures from whence these spring, I planted a foot and began
+my descent. The Reservoir was fuller than it is now, and a few strides
+would have carried me to the margin of the water. Holding on to the
+cleft above, I felt round with one foot for a place to plant it below
+me.
+
+"In that moment the flap of a pound pike made me look round, and the
+roots of the weed upon which I partially depended gave way as I was in
+the act of turning. Sir, one's senses are sharpened in deadly peril; as
+I live now, I distinctly heard the bells of Trinity chiming midnight, as
+I rose to the surface the next instant, immersed in the stone caldron,
+where I must swim for my life Heaven only could tell how long!
+
+"I am a capital swimmer; and this naturally gave me a degree of
+self-possession. Falling as I had, I of course had pitched out some
+distance from the sloping parapet. A few strokes brought me to the edge.
+I really was not yet certain but that I could clamber up the face of the
+wall anywhere. I hoped that I could. I felt certain at least there
+was some spot where I might get hold with my hands, even if I did not
+ultimately ascend it.
+
+"I tried the nearest spot. The inclination of the wall was so vertical
+that it did not even rest me to lean against it. I felt with my hands
+and with my feet. Surely, I thought, there must be some fissure like
+those in which that ill-omened weed had found a place for its root!
+
+"There was none. My fingers became sore in busying themselves with the
+harsh and inhospitable stones. My feet slipped from the smooth and
+slimy masonry beneath the water; and several times my face came in rude
+contact with the wall, when my foothold gave way on the instant that I
+seemed to have found some diminutive rocky cleat upon which I could stay
+myself.
+
+"Sir, did you ever see a rat drowned in a half-filled hogshead-how he
+swims round, and round, and round; and after vainly trying the sides
+again and again with his paws, fixes his eyes upon the upper rim as if
+he would _look himself_ out of his watery prison?
+
+"I thought of the miserable vermin, thought of him as I had often
+watched thus his dying agonies, when a cruel urchin of eight or ten.
+Boys are horribly cruel, sir; boys, women, and savages. All childlike
+things are cruel; cruel from a want of thought and from perverse
+ingenuity, although by instinct each of these is so tender. You may not
+have observed it, but a savage is as tender to his own young as a boy
+is to a favorite puppy-the same boy that will torture a kitten out of
+existence. I thought then, I say, of the rat drowning in a half-filled
+cask of water, and lifting his gaze out of the vessel as he grew more
+and more desperate, and I flung myself on my back, and, floating thus,
+fixed my eyes upon the face of the moon.
+
+"The moon is well enough in her way, however you may look at her; but
+her appearance is, to say the least of it, peculiar to a man floating on
+his back in the centre of a stone tank, with a dead wall of some fifteen
+or twenty feet rising squarely on every side of him!" (The young man
+smiled bitterly as he said this, and shuddered once or twice before
+he went on musingly.) "The last time I had noted the planet with any
+emotion she was on the wane. Mary was with me; I had brought her out
+here one morning to look at the view from the top of the Reservoir. She
+said little of the scene, but as we talked of our old childish loves,
+I saw that its fresh features were incorporating themselves with tender
+memories of the past, and I was content.
+
+"There was a rich golden haze upon the landscape, and as my own spirits
+rose amid the voluptuous atmosphere, she pointed to the waning planet,
+discernible like a faint gash in the welkin, and wondered how long it
+would be before the leaves would fall. Strange girl! did she mean to
+rebuke my joyous mood, as if we had no right to be happy while Nature,
+withering in her pomp, and the sickly moon, wasting in the blaze of
+noontide, were there to remind us of 'the-gone-forever'? 'They will all
+renew themselves, dear Mary,' said I, encouragingly, 'and there is
+one that will ever keep tryst alike with thee and nature through all
+seasons, if thou wilt but be true to one of us, and remain as now a
+child of nature.'
+
+"A tear sprang to her eye, and then searching her pocket for her
+card-case, she remembered an engagement to be present at Miss Lawson's
+opening of fall bonnets at two o'clock!
+
+"And yet, dear, wild, wayward Mary, I thought of her now. You have
+probably outlived this sort of thing, sir; but I, looking at the moon,
+as I floated there upturned to her yellow light, thought of the loved
+being whose tears I knew would flow when she heard of my singular fate,
+at once so grotesque, yet melancholy to awfulness.
+
+"And how often we have talked, too, of that Carian shepherd who spent
+his damp nights upon the hills, gazing as I do on the lustrous planet!
+Who will revel with her amid those old superstitions? Who, from our own
+unlegended woods, will evoke their yet undetected, haunting spirits? Who
+peer with her in prying scrutiny into nature's laws, and challenge
+the whispers of poetry from the voiceless throat of matter? Who laugh
+merrily over the stupid guesswork of pedants, that never mingled with
+the infinitude of nature, through love exhaustless and all-embracing, as
+we have? Poor girl! she will be companionless.
+
+"Alas! companionless forever-save in the exciting stages of some brisk
+flirtation. She will live hereafter by feeding other hearts with love's
+lore she has learned from me, and then, Pygmalion-like, grow fond of the
+images she has herself endowed with semblance of divinity, until they
+seem to breathe back the mystery the soul can truly catch from only one.
+
+"How anxious she will be lest the coroner shall have discovered any of
+her notes in my pocket!
+
+"I felt chilly as this last reflection crossed my mind, partly at
+thought of the coroner, partly at the idea of Mary being unwillingly
+compelled to wear mourning for me, in case of such a disclosure of our
+engagement. It is a provoking thing for a girl of nineteen to have to go
+into mourning for a deceased lover at the beginning of her second winter
+in the metropolis.
+
+"The water, though, with my motionless position, must have had something
+to do with my chilliness. I see, sir, you think that I tell my story
+with great levity; but indeed, indeed I should grow delirious did I
+venture to hold steadily to the awfulness of my feelings the greater
+part of that night. I think, indeed, I must have been most of the time
+hysterical with horror, for the vibrating emotions I have recapitulated
+did pass through my brain even as I have detailed them.
+
+"But as I now became calm in thought, I summoned up again some
+resolution of action.
+
+"I will begin at that corner (said I), and swim around the whole
+inclosure. I will swim slowly and again feel the sides of the tank with
+my feet. If die I must, let me perish at least from well-directed though
+exhausting effort, not sink from mere bootless weariness in sustaining
+myself till the morning shall bring relief.
+
+"The sides of the place seemed to grow higher as I now kept my watery
+course beneath them. It was not altogether a dead pull. I had some
+variety of emotion in making my circuit. When I swam in the shadow, it
+looked to me more cheerful beyond in the moonlight. When I swam in the
+moonlight, I had the hope of making some discovery when I should again
+reach the shadow. I turned several times on my back to rest just where
+those wavy lines would meet. The stars looked viciously bright to me
+from the bottom of that well; there was such a company of them; they
+were so glad in their lustrous revelry; and they had such space to move
+in! I was alone, sad to despair, in a strange element, prisoned, and a
+solitary gazer upon their mocking chorus. And yet there was nothing else
+with which I could hold communion!
+
+"I turned upon my breast and struck out almost frantically once more.
+The stars were forgotten; the moon, the very world of which I as yet
+formed a part, my poor Mary herself, were forgotten. I thought only of
+the strong man there perishing; of me in my lusty manhood, in the sharp
+vigor of my dawning prime, with faculties illimitable, with senses all
+alert, battling there with physical obstacles which men like myself had
+brought together for my undoing. The Eternal could never have willed
+this thing! I could not and I would not perish thus. And I grew strong
+in insolence of self-trust; and I laughed aloud as I dashed the sluggish
+water from side to side.
+
+"Then came an emotion of pity for myself of wild regret; of sorrow, Oh,
+infinite for a fate so desolate, a doom so dreary, so heart-sickening!
+You may laugh at the contradiction if you will, sir, but I felt that
+I could sacrifice my own life on the instant, to redeem another
+fellow-creature from such a place of horror, from an end so piteous.
+My soul and my vital spirit seemed in that desperate moment to be
+separating; while one in parting grieved over the deplorable fate of the
+other.
+
+"And then I prayed! I prayed, why or wherefore I know not. It was not
+from fear. It could not have been in hope. The days of miracles are
+past, and there was no natural law by whose providential interposition I
+could be saved. I did not pray; it prayed of itself, my soul within me.
+
+"Was the calmness that I now felt torpidity--the torpidity that precedes
+dissolution to the strong swimmer who, sinking from exhaustion, must at
+last add a bubble to the wave as he suffocates beneath the element which
+now denied his mastery? If it were so, how fortunate was it that my
+floating rod at that moment attracted my attention as it dashed through
+the water by me. I saw on the instant that a fish had entangled itself
+in the wire noose. The rod quivered, plunged, came again to the surface,
+and rippled the water as it shot in arrowy flight from side to side of
+the tank. At last, driven toward the southeast corner of the Reservoir,
+the small end seemed to have got foul somewhere. The brazen butt, which,
+every time the fish sounded, was thrown up to the moon, now sank by its
+own weight, showing that the other end must be fast. But the cornered
+fish, evidently anchored somewhere by that short wire, floundered
+several times to the surface before I thought of striking out to the
+spot.
+
+"The water is low now, and tolerably clear. You may see the very ledge
+there, sir, in yonder corner, on which the small end of my rod rested
+when I secured that pike with my hands. I did not take him from the
+slip-noose, however; but, standing upon the ledge, handled the rod in a
+workmanlike manner, as I flung that pound pickerel over the iron railing
+upon the top' of the parapet. The rod, as I have told you, barely
+reached from the railing to the water. It was a heavy, strong bass rod
+which I had borrowed in the 'Spirit of the Times' office; and when I
+discovered that the fish at the end of the wire made a strong enough
+knot to prevent me from drawing my tackle away from the railing around
+which it twined itself as I threw, why, as you can at once see, I had
+but little difficulty in making my way up the face of the wall with
+such assistance. The ladder which attracted your notice is, as you see,
+lashed to the iron railing in the identical spot where I thus made my
+escape; and, for fear of similar accidents, they have placed another
+one in the corresponding corner of the other compartment of the tank
+ever since my remarkable night's adventure in the Reservoir."
+
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