. The top of the continent; the story of a cheerful journey through our national parks. e water is many timesas stirring a spectacle as the water that comes downat Ladore; in fact, it is itself one of natures mostwonderful poems. Again and again in these sharp slopes between water-falls the water strikes cross ledges of rock and rises highin the air, describing long, sweeping arcs before it againjoins the rushing river below. Some of these half-circles of white frothing water rise fifty feet beforethey begin to curve downward. To sit on the slopinggranite banks alongside of a giant water-wheel
. The top of the continent; the story of a cheerful journey through our national parks. e water is many timesas stirring a spectacle as the water that comes downat Ladore; in fact, it is itself one of natures mostwonderful poems. Again and again in these sharp slopes between water-falls the water strikes cross ledges of rock and rises highin the air, describing long, sweeping arcs before it againjoins the rushing river below. Some of these half-circles of white frothing water rise fifty feet beforethey begin to curve downward. To sit on the slopinggranite banks alongside of a giant water-wheel, withfalls above and falls below, and this great frothingwheel turning swiftly in front, is to enjoy a sensationwhich will not dim in remembrance. It was a day of few words for the Jeffersons. Noteven the children were moved to break the silence. THE INCOMPARABLE VALLEY 187 Isnt it queer, said Jack, how you dont toshout here ? I just feel like looking awhile and thengoing back into the woods and get over it. It is a fitting climax for this wonderful Yosemite,said Aunt It is a paradise of squirrels IX A LONG LIFE AND A HAPPY ONE SOME OF THE TREES IN THE SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK WEREGROWING THERE WHEN PHARAOH MADE CAPTIVE THECHILDREN OF ISRAEL NOW there arose up a new king over Egypt whichknew not Joseph. And he said unto his people,Behold, the people of the children of Israel are moreand mightier than we: Come on, let us deal wdselywith them; lest they multiply and it come to passthat, when there falleth out any war, they join alsowith our enemies and fight against us, and so get themup out of the land. Therefore they did set over them taskmasters toafflict them with their burdens. . And they madetheir lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and inbrick, and all manner of service in the field; all theirservice, wherein they made them serve, was with rigor. While Pharaoh was afflicting the children of Israel,as related in the first chapter of Exodus, upon theopposite
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