Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-02-08
settled mp he'll have 70 60. But he's
mighty useful now. What would we do
WHAT COWBOYS ARE coon ron.

ak hours. But II was the post that was
cleaned out when that lon2.haired eau.
casian removed himself, heavy with eyery-
body's pay and declining the profIered
liquor.
Noaw," said the historian, II don't
play with no cowboy unless he's little bit
drunk first"
Ere | departed / gathered from more
than one man that significant fact that mn
TO one hundred yards be felt absolutely Sc
cure behind his revolver.
In England, / understand auoth the
timber youth from the South. "in England
man aren't allowed to play with no fire.
arms. He's got 70 be taught all that when
he enlists. | didn't want much TEACHING
Sam. And that's Just where IL is. But YOU
was talking about your Horse Guards
now?"
explained briefly some peculiaritles of
equipment connected with our crackest
crack cavalry. l grieve to say the camp
roared.
Take 'em over swampy ground. Let
'em run around a bit an work the starch
out of 'em an then, Almighty, if we
wouldn't plug 'em at ease I'd eat their
horses"
HENRY JAMES MAIDEN.
There was maiden--a very little maid
en-who had just stepped out of one Of
James's novels. She owned a delightful
mother and an equally delightful father-a
heavy eyed, slow-voiced man of finance.
The parents thought their daughter want
ed change.
She lived in New Hampshire. Accord
ingly, she had dragged them up to Alaska
and 10 the Yosemite Valley, and was now
returning leisurely ria the Yellowstone
just in time for the tail end of the summer
season OF Saratoga.
We had met once or twice before in the
park, and had been amazed and amused
at her critical commentator of the won
ders that she saw. From that very resolute
little mouth received lecture on Ameri-
can literature, the nature and inwardness
ot Washington society, the precise value
OF Cables works as compared with Uncle
Remus Harris, and few other things that
had nothing whatever to do with geysers,
but were altogether pleasant.
Now an English maiden who had STUN
bled on dust-grimed, lime-wasbed, SUM-
peeled, collarless wanderer come from and
going to goodness knows where, would,
her mother melting her and her father
him as a dissolute adventurer-a person to
be disregarded.
AMERICAN VERSUS ENGLISH MANNERS.
Not so those delightful people from New
They were good enough to
treat hint sounds almost incredible-as
a human being. possibly respectable, pro-
baby not in immediate need of financial
assistance.
Papa talked pleasantly and to the point.
The little maiden strove valiantly with
the accent of her birth and that of her
reading, and mamma smiled benignly IN
the background.
Balance this with story of young
English idiot met incoming about inside
his high collar. attended by a valet. He
to tell me that "you can't
be too careful who you talk to in these
parts" And stalked on fearing. Isuppose,
every minute for his social chastity.
That man was a barbarian Il took occa-
sion 10 tell him sol, for he comported him.
self after the manner of the head-hunters
and hunted of Assem-, who are at perpetual
feud one with another.
You will understand that these foolish
stories are introduced in order to cover the
fact that this pen cannot describe the glo-
ries of the Upper-Geyser basin. The eve
ming l spent under the lee of the Castle
Geyser, sitting on log with some troopers
and watching a baronial keep forty feet
high spouting hot water. If the Castle
went off first they said the Giantess would
be quiet, and Uice Uersd; and then they told
tales till the moon got up and party of
campers in the woods gave us al something
10 eat.
CHANCE CAVALRY ESCORT.
Then came soft turfy forest that deaden-
Cd the wheels, and two troopers on de-
.achment duty stole noiselessly behind US.
One was the Wrap-up-h Install man, and
they talked merrily while the half-broken
horses bucked about among the trees.
And so a cavalry escort was with us for
NILE, till we got to q mighty hill all strewn
With moss agates, and everybody had TO
lump out and pant in that thin air. But
now Intoxicating it was! The old lady
from Chicago ducked like an emancipated
hen as she scuttled about the road, cram
ming pieces Of rock into her reticule. She
sent me fifty yards down to the hillside to
pick up a piece Of broken bottle, which
She insisted was moss agate.
1--WE some o. that at home, an they
shine. Yes, you go get it. young man."
As we climbed the long path the road
rev viler and viler till it became
disguise the bed of a tor
rent. and Just when things were at their
-ockiest we nearly fell into little sap
Dhire lake-but never sapphire was so
)lue-called Mary's Lake. and that between
sight and nine thousand feet above the
sea.
Afterward, grass downs. all on a vehe-
nent slope, so that the buggy following
he new-made road ran on the two of
wheels mostly till we dipped head first
nto a ford, climbed up a cliff, raced along
lown, dipped again, and pulled up
at Larry's for lunch and an
lours rest.
Then we Law on the grass and laughed
NTH sheer bliss of being alive. This have
known once in Japan. once on the banks
# the Columbia. what time the salmon
anne in and California" howled, and
nee again III Yellowstone by the light
# the eyes of the maiden from New
-Four little pools lay at my ell
DOW. one was of black water (tepld),
me clear water (cold), one clear water
hot, one red water boiling. My newly
washed handkerchief covered them all and
We two maryelled as children marvel.
DOING THE CANYON.
This evening we shall do the Grand
Janyon of the Yellowstone?" said the
maiden.
Together ?" said 1: and she said
Yes"
The maid from New Hampshire said no
yord for q very long time. Then she
uoted poetry. which was perhaps the best
hing she could have done.
And think that this show-place has
,een going on all these days an none OF we
yer saw it," said the old lady from Chi
ago, with an acid glance at her husband.
mo. only the Injians," said he, IN
moved; and the maiden and laughed.
TOYING WITH nIMENsITIEs.
The sun was beginning TO sink when we
leard the roar of falling waters and came
o a broad river along whose banks we ran.
md then-I might at pinch describe the
thermal regions but not the other PLACE.
he Yellowstone river has occasion TO run
Trough q gorge about eight miles long.
20 get TO the bottom of the gorge II makes
wo leaps, one of about one hundred and
wenty and the other Of three hundred
eet. I investigated the upper or lesser
all. which is close 20 the hotel.
Up TO that time nothing particular nap
ems TO the Yellowstone-its banks beng
My rocky. rather steep, and plentitully
dorned with pines,
At the falls il comes round corner,
reen. solid, ribbed with little foam, and
ot more than thirty yards wide. Then II
oes over, still green and rather more
old than before. After minute. or two
on, sitting upon a rock directly above
he drop, begin 10 understand that some
ming has occurred; that the river has
1mped between solid cliff walls. and that
no gentle froth of water tapping the sides
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