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Long before we came to the Salinas River it was pouring down in torrents an inch of water to the hour. "It's a cloud-burst," said Mrs. Skenk, from beneath a prehistoric umbrella. "This'll flush the creeks good." I whipped up the horses, thinking of the Salinas and its treacherous waters. In California, when the ground is well sodden, a very small storm will create a very big freshet.
The trail ended in a precipitous gully, down which we scrambled with high hopes, and fishing-rods unbroken, only to find that the river was in a condition which made angling absurd if not impossible. There must have been a cloud-burst among the mountains, for the water was coming down in flood.
"That was a cloud-burst an act of God " "It was a dam-burst, and the act of an obstinate chump!" "Louis, I won't let anybody talk to me like that!" "But you've just done it, William."
So I abandoned them." "I remember that phase of it, partner." "To log it the third year only meant that more of those heavy logs would jam and spell more loss. Besides, there was always danger of another cloud-burst which would put me out of business completely, and I couldn't afford the risk."
Here and there, in the midst of all this splendor, was the large, placidly smiling face of a boy angel; four of these placidly smiling boy angels gazed from the four sides of the snow-white cloud-burst, and Peter's eye roamed from one to another, fascinated by the mathematics of this architectural marvel. There were fourteen columns in a row, and four such rows in the lobby.
We watched and wondered and at last concluded that this was the forefront of a vast body of water rolling down this narrow trough from some great cloud-burst above. High and Low Water. The piles of driftwood found on the rocks in the Canyon reveal a difference of upwards of two hundred feet between high and low water.
But a snowstorm in August looked very tame after the awful cloud-burst that came upon us without warning a few days before, and seemed determined to wash the whole town down to the Missouri River. It was about eleven o'clock, and four of us had gone to the shops to look at some pretty things that had just been brought over from a boat at Fort Benton by ox train. Mrs. Pierce and Mrs.
The few wadys, or "dry washes," are destitute of water except when a cloud-burst may fill them; but this happens at intervals of years only. The engineer takes into his confidence a caravan driver perhaps an Arab, possibly a Berber, but quite as likely a slave. And the long experience has taught the caravan man where to find the precious water.
The most remarkable season we have had since I left Aldington was the great drought of 1911. There was no rain here worth mention from June 22, the Coronation of King George V., until August 30, and the pastures on this thin land were burnt up. On August 30 we had some friends for tennis, and we had not been playing long before a mighty cloud-burst occurred; the rain fell in torrents.
They took the road up the cañon, toward McGibeney's ranch laughing and chatting, as they rode along side by side, Anne replying to every lark singing by the roadside in a voice almost as musical. Well, if it must be told, there was a cloud-burst on the mountains about noon that day.
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