The Alaska citizen., 1910-08-13

up to me and said:
 Is there room enough fer me on
 the seat by yer? want to go on to
 Wolf Rock
 "Yeh bet yer life I said yes but
 told her at night she would have to
 ride inside. Well, she seemed mighty
 tickled and was the sweetest doll
 yer eyer see in her trayellin' togs. I helped her up and buckled the
 apron over Us and tucked her in. She looked a bit scared. so high up,
 when we clattered over the bould- CTS and tree stumps and through the canyons. but like all the rest
 of the pilgrims soon fergot every
 thing exceptin' the scenery It was
 one of them splendid days as yer only find in the Rocky Mountains. 1 Thar's somethin' about them days earth. You never seem to miss the
 old orchards back in the states; yer i don't see no wild crabs a bloomin'
 nor wild honeysuckle, nor dogwood. nor snowballs, and yer don't want
 ter; yer life seems so full of every thing good, he air is so dry and
 crisp and all the world seems a. | sparklin' and a-runnin over with ! cocktails. Yer seem so braced up F,t1 bo -ly ;p bn
 bluest and clearest ever yer seen l in any country. and yer look and
 nary a cloud can yer see Everything seems so still and full of Gods i goodness. The sun shines on them
 big moss-covered rocks. as is as i big as this house, and the air gifts l full of them pine-tree odors and l the landscape-such as no painter has ever painted-spreads out be 1 it's all enchanted. I tell yer, boys. 1 when We uster go through them can yons. so solemn and grand, and 1 look at how God carved an chiseled them big mountains of rock straight up and down. with snow on top and
 a little river at the bottom as look
 ed like a silver thread up whar We
 ustCr set. an the pine an the spruce 1 trees a-groWin' Outen the rocks. a sighin like in the wind driyin' along | lOokin' down to the bottom over l thousands of tree-tops. sometimes
 wonderin' whar yer'd be if the cay
 uses went back on yer, somehow a l feller seemed to be near somethin' l higher and stuck mighty close to
 old Mother Nature fer company. But
 that thar road uster climb up the mountain side and the old perk uster 1 bresh again rocks til the pilgrims
 teeth would rattle. Then we'd come
 onto level ground and it would seem | like wakin' outen a dream. The | foothills was alters covered in May i with crimson bitterroOt that made
 kind of spring dress fer the land.
 The little lady gushed a good bit |
 over the beauty and said she never did know that the Rockies was so | fine And all the day we rolled
 along over the prairie with them big
 saw-toother mountains in sight and a-cuttin' to sky in scallops an never | scemin' to get no furder away. She wasn't so all-fired talkative. but she 1 said she had got sick and had to | stop over at Rocky Canyon a couple
 of days; had expected her man to meet her on the road somewhere, and it was mighty pitiful to see her, | fer l knoWed she was most disap- | pointed to death, althO' she tried
 must be minin' man from what she | said-that he'd been back every year since he'd left her but he had told her it was too woolly fer her to | live in the camps; also, he had wrote about Twin in a cabin with dirt
 roof, an coWhide fer floors and how | IOnely II was Ddtcnln III the nlllS. She thought it must be terrible to live alone in such a place, and jest
 wrote that she couldn't bear to think
 of it no longer and made up her
 mind to come and make it more homelike fer him. Said she was Willn' to foller him round the mines or over the prairies, fer she knoWed | she could stand it as well as him as they'd been raised alike. It seem | ed that his dad was sOt on him be- in lawyer and a-stayin' in the city, but he'd jined a party goin' | through to the Sweet Water mines, as such glowin' descriptions had reached them of people a-diggin' mug gets outen the roads with case knives. So he went. but finally found his way up into Montana and made his everlastin' fortune She said his old mother grieved fer him lots
 and was watchin fer him to come
 home every day.
 "I noticed tiny chain round her
 neck and asst her if it was costly, and if it was, to put it outen sight She seemed bit scared when