. The top of the continent; the story of a cheerful journey through our national parks. Photograph by S. N. Leek A large beaver family has lived here for many generations. Ill THE MYSTERY OF THE MESA NO ONE KNOWS WHAT BECAME OF THE CLIFF-DWELLERS OFTHE GREEN TABLE MAI A impatiently cut the threads of the littleloom her brown, grim, silent father had madefor her, and tore from it a small square of dull-red clothwhich her busy fingers had loosely w^oven during thehot afternoon. It had been hard work. The threadhad become sadly tangled a dozen times; the lasttime it had taken a full half-hour to
. The top of the continent; the story of a cheerful journey through our national parks. Photograph by S. N. Leek A large beaver family has lived here for many generations. Ill THE MYSTERY OF THE MESA NO ONE KNOWS WHAT BECAME OF THE CLIFF-DWELLERS OFTHE GREEN TABLE MAI A impatiently cut the threads of the littleloom her brown, grim, silent father had madefor her, and tore from it a small square of dull-red clothwhich her busy fingers had loosely w^oven during thehot afternoon. It had been hard work. The threadhad become sadly tangled a dozen times; the lasttime it had taken a full half-hour to straighten out. But the cloth w^as fairly well made. The color,chosen from her mothers choicest stock, was warmand pretty, and the pattern, in corn yellow, was pleas-ing. The pattern ran from side to side across the square and, to Maia and her people, meant running u THE MYSTERY OF THE MESA 45 water. It was Maias favorite pattern because itsuggested what she loved best, the streams that poureddown the Mesas sides in the spring. It was not spring now, but midsummer, and thestreams had long since dried up and disappeared—all but the river miles away in the great ca
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