The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-11-19

Here were fine lakes all in view with
out taking a step, that were Of tin,
distinct colOrS. Here the mountains
were as vari- colored d, the lakes.
But my guide and | soun saw that
it would not be safe for a leniel
foot" To undertake to climb tnaI
peak from That side, So, reluc antlj
we gave it up and started back Or
our long aud tedious return 10 Wal
dOrf. Bat before starting back,
took q last look at that frownIag peak
aud | shook my fist in lis STORM
SCARED face aud said IN stand al
your old bald head if it takes my en-
tire vacation You see | never die
like 10 give up anything once AT
tempted, | think the old wn1ai
whu got into the dispute with heI
husband about a pair Of scissors mus
have belonged to u family. She
was 50 obstinate, you relnemb-r, thar
he stuck Ter head in Il Tub 81 Wt'cl
aud when she could 10 longer So Sis
SerS She held up her hand and .urkei
her fingers like Il pair Of sci>s,Ifs. Ol
! course, such UbStinacy: ur shall | Cal
it by the poll e nane determination:
will win out" And so it Gid in M
case.
] went back to Denver and rested
up a day and thea renewed my attack
upon that stubborn old peak. AID
this time vas successful. Securing a
livery team at Silver Plume and a
kid about twelve or fourteen years
old. to drive me. | rode To within two
miles Of the top. Here we secured
the horses and prepared for the
final dash" CD ii going at rate OF a
fourth of a mile in an hour could be
called a dash. But just before sun
down we reached the top, f%oot-sore,
weary and hungry, for l had lost my
lunch somewhere on the road. | lost
my head at one point On the ascent
and perhaps lost my lunch at the
same place. We came upon a point
on the trail that had been washed out
in a rccent cloud bulS5. Here l
abandoned a fine umbrella for l hau
need OF all the hands l had for other
purposes and felt as if | could have
used at least another pair in my bus
mess just then. In tact | reg cited
for the first time that in the tedious
process OF evolution, | had lost my
"prehensile candal appendage," for |
could have used it to an imme0Se ad-
vantage in holding on to the edges
of that hOrid gully on the mountain
side. Up to this time l han been
afraid / would get killed and now |
regretted that l had not been at
least, in infancy, and then l never
could have been silly enough to I'M
mountain climbing Buo l
then and there ':promised always to
be good and eve never go a~Stray'-
any more on the side Of GrayS Peak.
[ even promised the peak that if it
would let me alone | would, in future
let it alone. And you must have
noticed that even DR.. Cook never
Mt. McKinly but once. lie
S ever willing t. risk others TO find
he records he left there. In this re-
gard | find myself striRingly like the
5reat explorer. That is to say, if any
me doubted that | climbed to the top
# Gray's Peak, let him 60 up there
nd Oh looking in an old rusty bucket.
mong a hundred others, he will find
oy visiting card, But | shall not 90
Ip after it to prove to the world that
have been there. Even the doughty
who waS willing to 90 back to
he far north for his ESquimOs tn
rove his conquest Of Tie PCle"
willing to climb Mt. McKinly
ny more to get records left there.
'ut | recovered my lost head Cat least
part Of it, and finally mare the top.
the view was worth the effort.
ilink Of it, n sixth Of the entire
ale Of Colorado was in view.
zone hundred and six snow-capped
eakS that wea thin lofty heads in
dorado. New Mexico, Wyoming and
tab" may be seen from this awful
ovation. -l4,44l feet, NEARLY three
lies straight up in the air! But |
ould not linger for the u was then :
most down and it was III miles :
own the mountain to Silver Plume
Id two to where the horses were
ed out.
My little driver grew impatient be-
use / could not bound down the
yuntain like a goat as he could and
it me so as to have the horses ready
7 the time / reached him. All went
ell until the trail gave out and l
'uld not find it again, for it vas then
lrk. 1t only required short pro-
SIS of reasoning to convince myself,
any other fair minded person for
lat matter, that l was lost. You
ay depend that it does not make one
larioCsly happy to be lost in the
ccky mountains, above the timber
ne with the temperature covering
,out the ice line. The probabilities
spending a night IN the mountains
it'll no wood for a fire and no land
vel enough to exercise on is not a
prospect. One could nave
mped up and down to keep up the
rculation, only there was not the
hottest prospect OF his coming down
rice in the same neighborhood. Hell
uld have jumped up all right enough
ID the coming down would have