The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-22

to walk on the grassy edge of the trail and
thus run the risk of slipping over Mules,
more used to this kind Of work, always kept
to the road. Moral-Alwsys ride mule ON a
mountain trip.
| Henry cautioned Mother Prue, who had q
very round bodied horse, TO keep hold of ITS
name so that the saddle would not slip back !;
but to show her independence she refused to
do It, Her saddle slipped off three times go.
ing up that first hill, and yet it took two more
Just like It to convince her that the name was
of any use. Alternately riding and walking,
the top was reached at last, only to find that
the road Immediately went down just such
another zIgzag to the sea again. Nearly every.
one walked except Mother Prue leading or
driving their mails; and she did too after
the first minute, for the saddle, slipping for
ward frightened her horse, which gave a jump
and landed her. fortunately, on soft spo, by
the road.
After another climb of perhaps thousand
feet up the other side of this terrific gulch the
party was ready for a rest, and coming TO a
beautiful dell with fine stream flowing lhro'
it, shaded by ohia trees full of fruit, halt was
called 1t was luxurious to lie on the shady
bank and MUNICH ohias and doughnuts Henry,
trying to show off as usual, slipped INTO the
stream enough to get his feet wet This gave
ings and go barefoot He had more fun than
all the rest put together. wading in the stream
! Jumping from rock TO rock, forgetting, evil
IDENTIFY, that he was the father of five children
and the sole owner of a felon on his forefnger
and ought to be a little dignitied.
After good rest some of the party were for
moving on, but an almost unanimous protest
burst from the rest. This was the lovellest
place we had found, and it ought TO be enjoy
ed. So thought we all, and saddles were taken
off. Rambling down the stream, we came to
the jumping-of place, where 1t tell some hun
bred feet, dashed itself into spray on the rocks
below, and reforming into rushing cataract,
poured in successive cascades into the ocean
away below.
The sun snone slanting into the dell, and
made gorgeous rainbow from the foot of the
fall to the top, which could only be seen by
standing on the very edge of the juttng rock
and looking over. We did it IN turn, ladies
and all, with either hand held by a gentleman.
1t required some courage to do it, but the sight
amply paid for 1t. We dubbed the dell Rain
bow Gulch," though the natives called It
"Alalele." Leopold proposed that the boys go
up stream and find good place for bath.
We left the girls and wandered up the beauti.
full glen. A few hundred yards 1t wldened into
an amphitheatre very much like Deer Perk,
only much smaller as l recOllect it, and the
waterfall was perhaps five times as high and
of greater volume, Henry was the first in,
and was out again in short order. The water
was as cold as ice, and there WAS a strong sue
ton toward the fall so strong that he could
only bold himself from being drawn under
the cataract by holding fast to the rocks. we
chose more modest basin few rods below,
and had a fine bath.
On our return to the ladies, as the afternoon
was wearing away, we reluctantly left our
beautiful resting place and moved on toward
Kipahulu. We found as we went on that we
were over the worst of the pals of Kaupo.
After one more big gulch. which took US down
to the beach land down the lower halt OF
which Polly and Sukey rolled in the tall laxu.
rious grass, instead of keeping in the road as
staid young ladies should, the country opened
out into arolling plain, and We actually canter.
ed into Kipahulu. This was the first step we
had taken faster than a walk since leaving our
homes on the Makawao slope five days before,
and we enjoyed it hugely.
Soon our AlNUKEA flag was hoisted in the
yard of Mr.. c., the bachelor manager of the
tasty sugar mill of Mr.. Thos. Clark's plauts
ton. He gave up his whole house to the la
dies and refused to allow us to raise our tent
His kind nelghbors, the Cs., old friends Of
most of the party, threw open their houses
also and we were Hospitality taken care Of
On receiving an invitation to spend the whole
of the next day here, it was voted to accept
although one balky individual, who shall be
nameless, wanted to push on and get away
from civilization into the beautiful koolau
guiches beyond
The next day was spent by part of the party
in loating and writing letters, and by Leopold,
Sally Ann and Cowles in a ramble in the
mountain glens back of the plantation. Sally
Ann sat down in the stream again we heard,
ana was rescued by Leopold. The party came
back laden with ferns and oranges.
In the afternoon Henry Mother Grump
never did see such fellow IN all her lite'D
gave Sukey's chair little tip when she had it
beautifully balanced on its hind legs, and over
she went to the great astonlshment of our
bachelor friend who sat by. She fell very