The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon The Mystery of Bright Angel Gulch

me, I reckon," announced Dad a

e going on to the

turn in now, and get some sleep, for you will want to have your eyes wide open in t

t?" demanded

ny if you try it. You have a habit of falling in, I am told. You

e we?" as

nce. "Now you fellows turn in. Stake down the pint

vicinity of the great gash in the earth that they had come so far to see. But

of Jim Nance on their shoulders shaking them awake. The

ed Tad, sitting up a

kfast?" a

?" piped S

wash?" ques

with a twinkle. "There isn't any water near this place.

the Canyon?"

re at

g that looks like a

guess Dad knows what he is talking about. I for one am mo

sniffed

ell to satisfy me this morning," d

ed Tad. "Why didn't you let me

and feel fine, so I decided to be the cook, the wrangler

ony Riders. "But we th

we woke up t

uth. Tad saw that the guide had something of a sur

es, packing everything as if for a continuation of

stroll that way. He halted as a party of men and women were seen ap

walk along," nodded the

" asked the

crowd you

a woman's scream smote their ears. Tad, thi

, where his companions saw him halt sudd

lowed by the professor, who by

eet lay the Grand Canyon. Below them lay the wonder of the world, and more th

them speechless. They shrank back as they gazed into the awful chasm at their feet and into which they might have

od they looked almost straight down into the abyss for something more than a mile. Gazing straight ahead they saw to the other

sonry, fortresses, terraced up to the level of the eyes, temples, mountain high, all brilliant with horizontal lines of co

to them as if they themselves were standing in midair looking down upon a new and wonderful

ce at Tad Butler showed tear drops glistening on his cheeks. He was trembling. Never before had a more profound emotion taken hold of

that had been his almost constant companion for more than thirty years; whose moods he

n sharply to the fact that there were others present, when one of the little party of sight-seers t

a few times, then hurled it over the edge. The Pony Rider Boys waited, actually

to fall a mile, and when it does land it is doubtful if

thing to a bottomless pit. Walter Perkins recalled afterwards that his

a shout that was really an agonized

ebody hold me

mpress Chunky? The fat boy had begun to move forward toward the e

to jump! Oh, won't

nt and unable to move a muscle. The one who did see and understand was Tad Butler. Chunky was gi