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Campbell, half divining his futile regrets, went about their own tasks in silence. But when Campbell came down over the mountain-sheep trail and beheld what the cloudburst had done he spoke what came first into his mind. "Ah, my road," he moaned, talking half to himself after the manner of the lonely and deaf, "and I let it lie idle six weeks!
Another feature of this nest was that it had no roof, for the doorway was open to the sky, so that a cloudburst would have filled up their little nursery and drowned its inmates. *This chapter is reprinted from that excellent bird magazine called "American Ornithology," published by Charles K. Reed, Worcester, Mass., and edited by his son, Chester A. Reed.
A few shreds of clothes, that had once been a man, lay scattered there; a something that had been a horse. Mrs. Yellett Contends With A Cloudburst The matriarch had delayed longer in moving camp than was consistent with her habitual watchfulness where the interests of the sheep were involved.
First it led through the Gorge, now clinging to one wall and now crossing perforce to the other, and as Wunpost saw the work of the powder-men above him he laughed and slapped his leg. Great masses of rock had been shot down from the sides, filling up the pot-holes which the cloudburst had dug; and then, along the sides, a grade had been constructed which gave clearance for loaded trucks.
A cloudburst had sluiced the canyon from top to bottom and spread out a great fan of dirt; but in the earlier days an Indian trail had wound up it, passing by the hidden spring. And if he could water his mules there he could rim out up above and camp on a broad, level flat.
With the approach of Christmas the advance of the project was marked. The dam was nearing completion, with its long, gently inclined, upstream face constructed of smooth cobbles a slope up which any vast and sudden rush of cloudburst water would slide unchecked to the crest and harmlessly pass over.
Seems to me we've about exhausted the list of excitements. We've shot elk, grizzlies, a panther, a wolf, met up with Indians, been chased by a forest fire, soaked in the river and treed by a cloudburst. There could hardly be anything more, sir," laughed Frank. "Well, I admit that you have made hay while the sun shone; and such a pushing lot of boys always will get all the fun there is going.
Perhaps his last chance lay in the "Alpensymphonie." Here was a ceremony that could have made him priest once again. Europe had reached a summit, humanity had had a vision. Before it lay a long descent, a cloudburst, the sunset of a civilization, another night.
I began to breathe like my wife crochets an open-faced stocking one, two, three, drop one; one, two, three, four, drop one. Then my blood began to curdle and cold chills ran up my back and liked it so well they ran down again. My respiration was 8 to 1, my inspiration was 9 to 6 for a place, and my perspiration was like a cloudburst.
You tell your old man that I'll accept ten thousand dollars if he'll let me rebuild that road because ever since it washed out I've felt conscience-stricken as hell over starting that cloudburst down his canyon." He rose up gaily, but she refused to be comforted until he laid his big hand on her head, and then she sprang up and threw both arms around his neck and made him give her a kiss.
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