The real America in romance, with reading courses : being a complete and authentic history of America from the time of Columbus to the present day . r open-ing, where the moonbeams fell upon a profusionof flowers; there it re-entered dark valleys amongclustering trees, where the trail arms was givenin a half whisper. The boughs met and locked over-head, and the thick foliage hid the moon from a bright beam, entering through some chanceopening in the leaves, quivered along the path andscared the wolf in his midnight wanderings. Outagain upon the open track through the soft grass,and w
The real America in romance, with reading courses : being a complete and authentic history of America from the time of Columbus to the present day . r open-ing, where the moonbeams fell upon a profusionof flowers; there it re-entered dark valleys amongclustering trees, where the trail arms was givenin a half whisper. The boughs met and locked over-head, and the thick foliage hid the moon from a bright beam, entering through some chanceopening in the leaves, quivered along the path andscared the wolf in his midnight wanderings. Outagain upon the open track through the soft grass,and winding around the wild maguey, or under theclam-shaped thorns of the mesquite. A deer sprungup from his lair among the soft flowers, looked backfor a moment at the strange intruders and, fright-ened at the gleaming steel, dashed off into thethicket. The woods were not silent by night, as inthe colder regions of the North. The southern foresthas its voices, moonlight or dark. All through 346 HUMBLED PRIDE. the livelong night sings the mocking-bird andscreams the loreto. A halt was made, and silentand catlike, on his hands and knees, Mike stole. Silent and catlike, on his hands and knees, Mike stolenearer and nearer, through the thorny brambles. nearer and nearer through the thorny brambles,until the true nature of the apparition betrayeditself, in the shape of a huge column of prickly WITH SCOTT AT VERA CRUZ. 347 pear. He returned to his comrades, and the ob-stacle was passed; some one, as he passed, with amuttered curse, slashed his sabre through the softtrunk of the harmless vegetable. When day broke, Arthur was ten miles fromcamp—ten miles from the nearest American picket,and with only thirty men! They were concealedin a thicket of aloes and mesquite. This thicketcrowned the only eminence for miles in any direc-tion. It commanded a view of the whole countrysouthward to the Alvarado. As the sun rose, the forest echoed with soundsof song. The leaves moved with life, as a thou
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