Chapter 30

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌⁠They didn’t spend all their days on the island. They spent more than half of them wandering at will through the enchanted Muskoka country. Barney knew the woods as a book and he taught their lore and craft to Valancy. He could always find trail and haunt of the shy wood people. Valancy learned the different fairy-likenesses of the mosses—the charm and exquisiteness of woodland blossoms. She learne