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Show CLEAR CREEK CANON. 117 met by an army of little boys with specimens to sell. The rapid reduction of prices in these wares was something astounding. Rocks that were offered at first for fifty cents apiece fell to ten; and after I had bought all that I felt able to carry, a little boy emptied his box in Hal.'s lap and told her she could have them all for five cents. • The driver informed us that we had barely time to "make the train," and away we went, at a hair-lifting speed, over a road that was ploughed into gullies by the late rain storm. We left this focus of gold-bearing veins for silvery Georgetown. Job says, " surely there is a vein for the silver and a place for the gold where they find it." If that quotation is punctuated correctly Job must certainly have been in a facetious mood when he uttered it. We are once again in the grand old canon. I can hardly believe it is the same, for, viewed from the other side, every curve, rocky dome and spire seems new. There are two sides to a canon as well as to a quarrel; I am convinced of that, but my readers must be satisfied with a one-sided view, for I have not command of superlatives sufficient to describe it. CHAPTER XXVII. CLEAR CREEK CANON. While waiting for the up train at the Junction we had a delightful lunch, not like the usual fare at railway stations when you " ask for bread and receive a stone," but nice fresh rolls, genuine butter and savory coffee. We started again eager for the ride through Clear Creek canon, which is almost the perfection of pleasuring. There |