*** start of the project gutenberg ebook 1099 *** the riverman by stewart edward white i the time was the year 1872, and the place a bend in the river above a long pond terminating in a dam. beyond this dam, and on a flat lower than it, stood a two-story mill structure. save for a small, stump-dotted clearing, and the road that led from it, all else was forest. here in the bottom-lands, following the course of the stream, the hardwoods grew dense, their uppermost branches just beginning ...