. The top of the continent; the story of a cheerful journey through our national parks. has even drunk of the swift waters of the has had many adventures and several narrow es-capes. Perhaps travel has broadened and improvedhim. Many say so. Your Uncle Waggletoe is muchrespected. He has offered to show you the world, andI have consented. You see, he added, lowering hisvoice, your Uncle Waggletoes influence is undoubt-edly greater for his having travelled. People think heis a much more important goat than really he is. Idont much believe in travel myself, but certainly itis a cheap
. The top of the continent; the story of a cheerful journey through our national parks. has even drunk of the swift waters of the has had many adventures and several narrow es-capes. Perhaps travel has broadened and improvedhim. Many say so. Your Uncle Waggletoe is muchrespected. He has offered to show you the world, andI have consented. You see, he added, lowering hisvoice, your Uncle Waggletoes influence is undoubt-edly greater for his having travelled. People think heis a much more important goat than really he is. Idont much believe in travel myself, but certainly itis a cheap and easy way to make a reputation. AndMr. Goat winked one eye solemnly. From which you will perceive, children, that UncleWaggletoe was not the only wise old goat in the Ice-berg Gorge that morning. They started early one spring morning from Ice-berg Lake. More than a hundred white goats, youngand old, great and small, gathered on the ledges tobid them farewell. *In all Goatland, my dear Rocky, said UncleWaggletoe, you will see nothing grander than this 100 THE TOP OF THE CONTINENT. VMG-H^r^ ETMCrtT Spot. That glacierslanting sharplydown the mountain-side and splittingoff ice chunks intothe water is not solarge as many youwill see, but it is - very, very wonder-ful. An eagle oncetold me that he had seen a place called Mount Rainierwhere the glacierswere hundreds oftimes as long asthis and the ice asthick as the Garden •In all Goatland, my dear Rocky ^^^ jg J^jj^^ g^^said Uncle Waggletoe, you will ^ see nothing grander than this eaglcS are SUCllspot. liars ! Uncle Wag-gletoe sighed.^ Now, I am not going to describe their travels, for that would taketoo long. They were away all summer, and they sawmost of the magnificent mountain country which we ROCKY M. GOAT, JR. 101 call the Glacier National Park. They crossed theContinental Divide, not by the beautiful Swift currentPass which we shall cross to-morrow on horseback,but right up over the Garden Wall. They skirtedthe crests of
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