New Colorado and the Santa Fé trail . iis stream, whicli only this noon was thin and sluggisli far off there, where towers old Baldy Peak, had been a storm, or per-haps a water-spout, and a tremendous body of muddy water, bearing withit shrubs, sticks, and even large trees, had come tearing down the we drove into the cotton-wood grove the horses stopped. Frombank to bank stretched a roaring torrent. We were on this side; on theother were the trees around the dwelling-house, the stable for the horses,and the supper—so near, and yet so far! We thought of the words ofthe anc
New Colorado and the Santa Fé trail . iis stream, whicli only this noon was thin and sluggisli far off there, where towers old Baldy Peak, had been a storm, or per-haps a water-spout, and a tremendous body of muddy water, bearing withit shrubs, sticks, and even large trees, had come tearing down the we drove into the cotton-wood grove the horses stopped. Frombank to bank stretched a roaring torrent. We were on this side; on theother were the trees around the dwelling-house, the stable for the horses,and the supper—so near, and yet so far! We thought of the words ofthe ancient psalm-book: Criglit fields bejond the swelling floodStand dressed in living green;So to the Jews fair Canaan stood,While Jordan rolled between; and we waited, watching the growing darkness, and coveting the flesh-potsof Ilermosilla. And did we finally cross? Well, yes. A mule teamcame along, and the Commodore said, with Sam Patch, that some thingscould be done as well as others, and that he might as well be drowned ^ij^ .^^,^=. CROSSING THE HLKKFANO. as starve; and some one else remarked that his head was level (under or-dinary circumstances the use of slang would have been strenuously depre-cated) ; and then— But it is best to dwell on results rather than onprocesses. Sufiice it to say that no one was missing at the supper table. 40 NKW COLORADO AND TUE SANTA FE TRAIL. v^oiiii (licadcs ;ii,M tlii Clievalit r St. Vraiii raised a force to figlit thoIndians; altlioiiijli lie had faced daiincr oii the frontier for a longwhile, he did imt entertain thi \\v\\\ so conuiion in 18U1, tliat every onecouKl conmiand troops, and lie applied to the United States Government
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