. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . EVERTS RUSHING FROM THE FOREST FIRE. 587 ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 589 lay down with a prayer for sleep and forgetfulness. Alas! neithercame. The moaning of the wind through the pines, mingling with thesullen roar of the falls, was strangely in unison with his own sad feel-ings. The cold increased through the night. Only constant beatingand friction of his limbs saved him from freezing. In
. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . EVERTS RUSHING FROM THE FOREST FIRE. 587 ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. 589 lay down with a prayer for sleep and forgetfulness. Alas! neithercame. The moaning of the wind through the pines, mingling with thesullen roar of the falls, was strangely in unison with his own sad feel-ings. The cold increased through the night. Only constant beatingand friction of his limbs saved him from freezing. In the morning hisright arm was partially paralyzed and his limhs so stiffened with coldas to be almost immovable. Fearing paralysis, with the appearance ofthe sun he kindled with his lens a mighty flame and fed it with everydry stick within his IMAGINARY COMPANIONS. His old friend and adviser, whose presence he had seen and felt forsome days past, now forsook him altogether. But new companionsappeared, by some process he was unable to explain, in his arms, legsand stomach. With these he would converse for hours as imaginaryfriends. They were constantly telling him of their wants. Thestomach demanded a change of diet and incessantly complained of theroots with which he was fed. He tried to silence him with promises,and, failing therein, sought to intimidate him by declaring, as a sureresult of negligence, their inability to reach home. All to no was all the way through a continuous torment. The other members 590 ECHOES FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. usually concurred with him. The legs begged for a rest and the armscomplained that they were forced to perform too great a labor. Theyappeared to be perfectly helpless of themselves and would do nothingfor one another. As a counterpoise of their own complaints, however,whene
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