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which was and is, and ought to be forever, in my own poor mind toward those who were so good to me. From time to time it is said (wh

hich has suggested it; and this I can not have, and therefore only know that

ry one else) reserved and silent as to my father's history. But he always treated me as if I belonged to a rank of life quite diffe

e best of him; and his shrewdness certainly did not spring from any form of bitterness. He was rough in his ways sometimes, and could not bear to be contradicted when he was sure that he was right, which generally happened to him. But above all things he had one very great peculiarity, to my mind highly vexatious, because it seemed so unaccountable. Sam

ife of a chief among them, and the mother of several children. But Klamath Indians, enemies of theirs (who carried off the lady of the cattle ranch, and afterward shot Elijah), had Suan Isco in their possession, having murdered her husband and children, and were

finest humanity would have considered her worth a quarter of the trouble of her carriage. But she proved to be worth it a thousandfold; and Sawyer Gundry (as now he was called) knew by this t

m. But when I came to understand them and their simple greatness, the only thing I was ashamed of was my own mistrust o

mpson Gundry's grandson "Firm"-as he was called for Ephraim-ran

s deep, slow style of speech. "We are going up the

answered, gladly. "What gr

If I could have saved it, it should have stood. But grandfather did it to prove his rights. We shall h

made cloak or shawl unbearable. But when I ran down to the yard of the m

e air will be sharp up there, and I doubt if we shall be home by night-fall. Run,

h it. When speed was required, she attained it by increased length of stride and great

ounting steep places as if twoscore were struck off his threescore years and five. From time to time he turned round to laugh, or see that his men and trained bullocks were r

ehaved as if my state of mind was a thing to be considered. But the longer we rose through the freedom and the height, the ligh

e tree was still there, but not its glory; for, alas! the mighty trunk lay prostrate-a grander column than ever was or will be built by human hands. The tapering shaft stretched out of sight for somethi

ere we all looked so sadly small that several of the men began to laugh; the bullocks seemed nothing but raccoons or beavers to run on the branches or the fibres of the tree; and the chain

sadly, and some cocked their tails because they felt that they could not be called upon to work. The light of the afternoon sun ca

ouble with his throat. Then in his sturdy manner he spoke the truth, according to his natu

th you get no grip of his girth, no more than you do of a man till he lieth a corpse. At the time of felling I could not come anigh him, by reason of an accident; and I had some words with this boy about it, which kept me away ever since that time. Firm, you were

host, and his supplies were good. But before the descent with the empty teams began, young Ephraim did what appeared to me to be a gallant and straightforward thing. H

e was very obstinate), that his grandson was going now to clear himself from art or part in t

p us with this job. It was a job which required to be done for legal reasons which I do not understand, but no doubt they were good ones. For that we ha

stump to be found even in America, delivered a speech which was very good to hear, but need n

atever aileth you, Miss Rema, and what can 'e see in the distance yonner? Never mi

track of mountain, the very gap in which my father stood and bade me seek this landmark. His memory was true, and his eyesight also; but the great