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Updated: June 14, 2025
Even as she cried, Choko was seen frantically scrambling on the verge of a cliff, and suddenly vanished over its side. "Oh, my little Choko!" sobbed Polly, quickly turning Noddy to go down to the edge of the precipice where the burro had slipped over and down. "Now we haven't a thing to eat, and no blankets for the night! I knew this was a foolish outing," complained Barbara.
Just as they were ready to start, Sary flew out with a paper package carefully held. "Polly, Ah made a s'prise fer you-all, but don't let Choko roll in it er run away, er my work will go fer nuthin'." "Don't worry about Choko, Sary, he's too trustworthy to serve us such a trick," bragged Polly, petting the burro on the head.
"How will you torture me, Harberth, please?" asked Dam meekly, as he measured the other with his eye, noted his puffiness, short reach, and inward tendency of knee. "Oh! lots of ways," was the reply. "Dry shaves, tweaks, scalpers, twisters, choko, tappers, digs, benders, shinners, windos, all sorts." "I don't even know what they are," moaned Dam.
Noddy must have been a frequent traveler to this tree for she knew exactly the way to go and when she came opposite the pine that bore the blaze, she stopped of her own accord. "Now, wasn't that cute?" cried Eleanor, riding her burro directly behind Noddy. Polly jumped from her burro's back and went over to Choko.
She stopped to beckon to Eleanor and then urged Noddy along the foothold cleft from the cliff. Above, the rock-wall rose to the mountain-top; beneath, Polly could not gauge the depth it was too dreadful and was now blurred by fine drifts from the blizzard. After what seemed an age, Polly reached Choko, who still stood obedient to his mistress's command of "Whoa."
I'm sure I'm not such a fool as to have the same thing happen to me as it did to Choko," cried Barbara, but the wind carried her words back to Grizzly Slide. Polly slid from her saddle and stretched out flat upon the brink to peer over the edge for a possible sight of the burro. As she did so, she saw a mass of baggage and burro scramble upright and shake itself violently.
Then a plaintive whinny rose up to welcome the fearful girls. "Whoa! Whoa, Choko!" shouted Polly, instantly. Jumping up, she called to Eleanor: "Choko fell upon a ledge, but there's a great hole behind him and should he back he will surely fall in and be lost. I'm going down to lead him out!" "Oh, Polly, don't risk your precious life for a burro!" screamed Barbara, hysterically.
Brewster watching them ride down the trail until they disappeared back of Rainbow Cliffs. Then she went back to attend to her household duties. Polly rode Noddy as usual, and Eleanor had Choko. The other four members of the party rode horses, but one extra burro, Nigger, was taken to carry the luggage.
After climbing for two hours more, Noddy wrinkled his nose and twitched his sensitive ears. "Noddy scents water. See, Choko is acting the same way," called Polly; and sure enough both burros were making faces at the sky-line. In a short time the riders reached another Park but this one was not half the size of the first.
The packs were slipped from Choko and he, with the other mounts, were hobbled and left to graze on the buffalo grass in the clearing. The girls unpacked a pannier while Polly arranged her tackle and started for the top of the cliff whence fell the water. "Let me go with you, Poll, and watch?" asked Eleanor. "If you won't speak, and mind you don't slip and fall!"
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