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"Weli. here be cantg,', annouaeed Mrs Yet'ett Nhat Mary had taken for bank of SHOW was | h9%e c.lu vas covered wagon. several dogs III. down to greet the blackboard. Gar!,.:ss- welcome In the background N'&s :; shadoWy groUp, nage of stature, ln,k- ing it's Way ,3&n .ic n.onHtaia path. And heres all t1za eli '@t.a come to meet teacher. ss...s. lsiie.t.s tone was te!!0erly maternal, 2s if 1t was something of feat for the children to walk down the mountain path to meet their teacher But Mary. straining her eyes to catch a glimpse of her little pupils. could discover nothing but group Of persons that seemed to be the sole survivors of some titanic race. Not one among them but seemed to have reached the high water mark of six feet. Was it an optical illusion. hailuc:nation born of the wonderful starlight, or were they as huge as they seemed? The young men looked giants, the girls as if they had wandered out of the first chapters of Genesis. Their mother introduced them. They all had huge. warm, perspring hands, with grips like bears. Mary looked about for house into which she could escape to gather her scattered faculties, but the starlight. yellow and luminous, re- vealed none. There was the huge GOV cred wagon that she had taken for a snow bank, there was small tent, there were two light wagons, there 1.> no sign of house.
 What Go you think of it?" inquired Mrs. Yellett snlilingly anticipating a favorable answer
 Its almost too beautiful to leave.' Mary innoccnt!y supposed that Mrs. Ye,ett referred to the starlit land scape. But I'm so tired, Mrs. Yellett, and so glad to get to q real home at last. that I'm going to ask if you will not show me the way to the house so that may so to bed right away"
 This apparently reasonable request was greeted by fine chorus of titanic laughter from Mary's pupils. M's. Yellett waved her hand over the sur- rounding landscape in comprehensive gesture.
 ''Ai1't all this large enough for you:s she asked gayly.
 'YOn mean the mountains? Thes.'rs. wonderful. But-I really think I'd li1is= to go in the house,
 ''l shore hope you ain't fgger;n OF goin into no house. 'cause there an' no house to go into.'' She lauglcs merrily, as if the idea of such an etfets luxury as a house were amusing. This yere family "iA't ever had house; it camps
 Mary g&sneH The real meaning ot words no longer had the power of mak ing an impre@s;a, oa hoI. If Mrs. Tel lett had announcea that they were il the habit e. sleeping in the moon it would i.ot have #ll:'p' .scd her.
 If yoi ;.lv t.:zs. an want to go bed yoli c..n SHREK off an lie Gown |. time. i;en, Jack, Ned. go jil' set W. paw in the tent Wli.c the gov nle..; gets ra;Gy for he'd. Cacta an Cle.H you help ll.e with them quilts
 Mary stood helpless in the wilderness while quilts and pillows were fetc1.et. somewhere fro:.i tie adjacent scenery and Mrs. Yel:ett asked her with tie gravity of a Pullman porter interrogat- ing passenger as to the location of head and foot. if she liked to sleel, flight or dar,;." She chose "tark" al random, hating to display her isRo rance of the alternatives, with the hap. py result that her bed was made up to ,,,1~ <1>o nice little corner of the state of Wyo. ming. Mary was grateful that she had chosen dark