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Updated: May 17, 2025
The way was through a pebbly waste of beach and salt-grass, and a sea-scrub of grey bushes. A mile to their left the rocks began, spurs of the mountains; the shrubs became stunted trees; the rocks climbed, the trees with them; then the forest rose, first sparsely, then thick and dark; lastly, into the deep blue of the sky soared the toothed ridges, grey, scarred, and splintry.
"Gee!" exclaimed Dorian, "that would be great fun." "Fun? just you try it. Nobody reads these writers now only in school, where they have to. But say, Dorian" she arose to inspect her work again. "Have I too much purple in that bunch of salt-grass on the left? What do you think?" "I don't see any purple at all in the real grass," he said.
Wunpost camped that evening at Surveyor's Well, a trench-hole dug down into the Sink, and after his mules had eaten their fill of salt-grass he packed up again and pushed on to the east. From the stinking alkali flat with its mesquite clumps and sacaton, he passed on up an interminable wash; and at daylight he was hidden in the depths of a black canyon which ended abruptly behind him.
Kitty throws herself back in the dry salt-grass with which the whole of our little peninsula is bedded. The willows and brakes are our curtains, through which the rising moon looks in at us, and the setting sun; the sun rises long before we see him, above the dark-blue mountains beyond the shore. "Won't somebody repeat 'There is sweet music here that softlier lies?"
She flew across the desert and struck the river just below town. The quirt attached to her wrist rose and fell. She made no allowance for prairie-dog holes, but went at racing speed through the rabbit weed and over the slippery salt-grass bumps. In front of the cave she jerked the horse to a halt. "Hello, in there!" The tumble weeds moved and the head of Prince appeared.
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