The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-06
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"Fifteen minutes too late, Mt least!"
said Harris, in q vexed voice. "The
sun is clear above the horizon"
ono MATTER" ! said. it il n most
magnili cent spectacle, and we will see it
do the rest Of its rising, anyway"
In moment VIZ were deeply absorbed
m the marvel before liz, anil dead to
everything else. The great cloud-barred
disk Of the sun stood just above n limit
less expanse of tossing whitecaps-sO to
spenk-a billowy chaos of MASSEY noun
tain domes and peaks drnpcd In imperish-
able SNOW, and flooded with IN Opaline
glory of changing and dissolving splen-
doris, while through riffs in black
cloud bank above the sun, radiating
lances of diamond dust shot to the &c
NTH. The cloven valleys Of the lower
world swan in a tinted mist which yelled
the rigge,lness of thei' crags and ribs
and ragged forests, and turne,. Nil the
forbidding region into II soft and rich
and sensuous paradise,
We could not speak. We could hard
ly breathe. We could only gaze in
drunken ecstasy and drink it in. Pres
emily Harris exclaimed: "Why ----na-
ton, it's going darn
Perfectly true. We had missed tho
m0rHiny hom-blow, and slept all day.
This was Supplying. Harris said:
"Look here, the sun isn't the spocta-
clc-it's nS-stacked up here ON top of
this gallows, in these idiotic blankets,
and $50 well dressed men and women
down here gawking up Mt III and not car
ing straw whether the sun rises or
sets, SO long rs they've got such ride
ulons spectacle rs this to set down in
their memorandum books. They seem
to be laughing their ribs loose, and
there's one girl there that appears to be
going all to pieces. ! never saw such a
man rs you before. think you are til.
very lust possibility III the way of an
ass."
"What have done2" ! answered
with heat.
"What have yOu doncp You've got
up ut Z! o'clock in the evening to see
the sun rise, that's what you've done"
The next morning, however, we were
up before daylight. Fully clothed and
wrapped in blankets we huddled our
selves up by the window and lighted
pipes and fell into q chat. While we
waited in exceeding comfort to see how
I'M Alpine sunrise was going to look by
candle light. BY and by delicate,
spiritual sort of cffulgencc spread itself
by impereptible degrees over the Hottest
altitude of the snowy wastes-but there
the effort seemed to stop. said, pre-
scntly:
"There is u hitch about this sunrise
somewhere. 1t doesn't seem to 60
What do you reckon is the matter witt
it?"
~ don't know. 1t appears to hang
fire somewhere. / never saw sunrise
act like that before. Can 1t be that the
is playing anything on us?'
"Of course not. The hotel merely
has property interest In the SUN, 1t has
nothing to do with the management of it.
1t is precarious kind Of property, too
Il succession of total cclipses would
probably rum this tavern. Now, what
can be the matter with this sunrise ?"
Harris jumped up and said: "I'vt
got it! We've been looking mt the place
where the sun set last night"
sit is perfectly true! Why couldn't
you have thought of that sooner? Now
we've lost another onel And I'LL through
your laundering. 1t was exactly like
you to sit down andlight pipe and wait
for the sun to rise in the west"
sit was exactly like me to find out the
mistake, too. You never would lave
found it out. / find out all the mis-.
takes"
"You make them NIL, too, else ynui
most valuable faculty would be wasted
on you. But don't stop to quarrel now,
maybe we are not too late yet"
But we were. The sun was we'll uI
when we got to the exhibition ground.