. The trail book . ke a womans. He remembered it after-ward in telling of the extraordinary thing that hadhappened to him, for when he went to look, wherethe great beast had leaped in air and fallen, therewas nothing to be found there. Nothing. 44 If she had been in her form as a woman whenhe shot her, said the Condor, that is what hewould have found. But she was a Passing Being,not taking form from without as we do, of the out-ward touchings of things, and her shape of a pumawas as mist which vanishes in death as mist doesin the sun. Thus shortens my story. 265 THE TRAIL BOOK Come, said the R
. The trail book . ke a womans. He remembered it after-ward in telling of the extraordinary thing that hadhappened to him, for when he went to look, wherethe great beast had leaped in air and fallen, therewas nothing to be found there. Nothing. 44 If she had been in her form as a woman whenhe shot her, said the Condor, that is what hewould have found. But she was a Passing Being,not taking form from without as we do, of the out-ward touchings of things, and her shape of a pumawas as mist which vanishes in death as mist doesin the sun. Thus shortens my story. 265 THE TRAIL BOOK Come, said the Road-Runner, understandingthat there would be no more to the Telling. TheSeven Persons are out, and the trail is The children looked up and saw the constellationwhich they knew as the Dipper, shining in a deepblue heaven. The glow was gone from the highcliffs of El Morro, and the junipers seemed to drawsecretly together. Without a word they took handsand began to run along the trail after the XV HOW THE MEDICINE OF THE ARROWS WAS BROKEN ATREPUBLICAN RIVER; TOLD BY THE CHIEF OFFICER OF THE DOG SOLDIERS THIS is the story the Dog Soldier told Oliver oneevening in April, just after school let out, while thesun was still warm and bright on the young grass,and yet one somehow did not care about had slipped into the Indian room by thewest entrance to look at the Dog Dancers, for theteacher had just told them that our country wasto join the big war which had been going on so longon the other side of the Atlantic, and the boy wasfeeling rather excited about it, and yet solemn. The teacher had told them about the braveFrenchmen who had stood up in the way of theenemy saying, They shall not pass, and they 267 THE TRAIL BOOK had nt. It made Oliver think of what he had readon the Dog Dancers card — how in a desperatefight the officer would stick an arrow or a lancethrough his long scarf, where it trailed upon theground, pinning himself to the earth u
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