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Show 168 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. boldly with both feet and laid the old lady abruptly on the ground. He was then ready to go. Being once started he was as persistent in that as formerly in bolting, and kept his heels so frequently in the air it was dangerous for the woman to rise. She screamed, " Oh! Yacob, run here, Yacob!" He hastened to her assistance, shouting, " Keep your tarn head mit de ground. I tink you learn some tings pretty quick already." We thought Jacob's advice very applicable to all self-assertive individuals. Our train was off again, and having seen it circumvent so many mountains which persisted in not getting out of the way, I supposed it was bent on some sort of strategy calculated to dodge the next one. But there I was again deluded, for it turned suddenly to the right and seemed to be making a straight, short cut for the summit. We had advanced only three or four hundred feet, but had gained more than that number in elevation. From the car windows we could look down the chimneys of the little village left at the foot of the ascent. Another half-hour of persistent steaming brought us to the top of Kenosha hill, 10,300 feet above the sea. There was an explosion of opinions. The charmed tourist said " excelsior "-the hurried man of the mines, to whom this hanging on the selvedge edge of the mountains was an old story, gave a disgusted " umph!" Swinging dizzily around a sharp curve-what a vision! Stretching out beneath the summer heaven's delicious blue was a landscape unlike any I had ever seen before. A natural park of magnificent proportions, watered by sparkling streams, and dotted with mounds and hills, |