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

e to move. Then all at once he sprang forward, throwing himself upon

ggo!" shri

He was possessed with a maddened desire to throw himself into the mile-deep chasm. It

e situation, ran at full spe

s shoulders," gasped Tad, sitting down

tly. "They get taken that way sometime

Dad waved them back; then, with Tad holding up the fat boy's shoulders, Dad with Chunky's feet in hand, the tw

inted--fainted awa

all right in a few minu

?" wondered Tad, turni

d see something, but I didn't think Fatty

r the others, Ned or the Professor might be take

pened his eyes. He sat up, looking dazed

sure, Tad,"

nse

uld,

k and loo

million,

got to get over that fright. We shall have to be around th

e! Don't you think it takes nerve for a fellow to start in to jump off a

ome the

expected that Ned would make fun of him. Ned did nothing of the sort. Both Ned and Walter were

f it, Professor?" as

s fai

other look," an

n lying flat on his stomach, head out over the

nodded a

er acquaintance with the mystery of the great gash. After a time the others walked back, Dad taking Chunky by the nape of the neck. Perhaps it

ow!" urged

neck. I won't make a fo

mise

om his perilous position and walking calml

?" demand

jig

. That des

rmed himself before starting ou

us a lecture. List

s, little idea of the vastness of

gest thing in the worl

e. Allowing twice as much room as is given for the seat of each person in the most comfortable theatre in the world, and y

ir eyes at the magn

d and fifty million voices could be placed comfortably on the opposi

'd like to be in the box office of that

ve heard Stacy Brown's

n bega

. As perhaps some of you, who have studied your geography seriously, may know, the river is formed in southern Utah by the confluence of the Green and Grand, inte

boys politely, fill

ousand miles long. This gorge is slightly more than two hundred miles long. Am I correct in my figures, M

n you ar

has a win

h rivers," muttered

away; the depression of the Canyon Surface serving for the depositing of Devonian, Lower Carboniferous, Upper Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous; the formation of

ted Chunky, toppling o

me sea

rofessor. "I am positively am

made his head swim, I think, Professor," exp

t just then. The Professor postponed the res

-day, or will you wa

e edge of the rim to occupy our minds for the

they journeyed over to the hotel for dinner. The guests at the quaint hotel were much interested in the Pony Rider Boys, and late in the after

t line. In front the American flag was planted, the camp fire burning about midway o

t the boys were too full of the wonderful things they h

slipped away, leaving his chums listening to the conversation. Dad was also listening in open-mouthed wonder that any human being could use such long words as were being passed back and f

rd the rim. Tad, fearless, regardless of the peril to himself, was lying flat on hi

o be here, boy," sa

resence, Tad never moved nor started, the tone was so gent

d down on the very edge of the rim, both feet bangin

might

might fall, too. You are

aid. The Canyon

n you li

er part of

he

loved Canyon, where the foot of the white man seldom st

ave heard. I h

to their listening ears. There were other sounds, too, mysterious sounds that came l

Canyon is sad to-ni

the wind sighing t

the very spirit of life. I don't know how to explain it,

Dad,

you. All those people," with a sweeping gesture toward the hotel where music and song were heard, "miss it all. What they see

live down

Why

u would long for h

dded Jim Nance simply. "I shall live and die there--I hope, and I'll be bur

you go af

ook hi

ou may take the gold if you can find it,

tecture in the Canyon, had turned to molten silver. This with Newberry Terrace, Solomon'

es missing little that had been going on about him, had after a time stolen away after Tad and the guide. His curiosity had been

d the Canyon when he halted suddenly,

k!" cried

he camp heard the shout and ran toward the r