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As a matter of fact I think the sailor's contention had something in it; the long accurate weapon with its tiny missile was probably all right when its user had a chance to plant the bullet exactly in a fatal spot, but not for such quick snap shooting as this. At any rate our visions of cheap fresh meat vanished on the hoof. The last day out we came into a wide bottomland country with oaks.
"Didn't he go up the cliff?" demanded the marshal. "No, sir." "Well, what in thunder did he ask me where the cliff was if he " "So he went to the river, eh?" interrupted Squires. "Come on, men; he went down through this brush and bottomland." "He got lost, I guess," volunteered the boy. "What!" "'Cause he yelled at me after he'd gone in a-ways an' ast an' ast " The boy paused irresolutely.
The wilderness of pine forest had been left on the right after leaving Lone Pine, and the trail led down gradually to a bottomland of brilliant green herbage. Directly over this emerald valley ran a corduroy roadway. "There must have been a brook under this at one time!" stated Eleanor, finding the logs partly embedded in caked mud.
Ramon was a good many miles away in another direction; unwittingly the Happy Family was keeping doggedly upon the trail of a party of renegade Navajos who had been out on a thieving expedition among those Mexicans who live upon the Rio Grande bottomland.
The young corn, deep green in the bottomland, moved with a staccato flurry, and the dust ghost of a mad whirling dervish sped up the main road to vanish at the bridge in a climax of lunacy.
"We're here," he said. "Home such as it is it's home." He helped her out, guided her steps up to the level of the bottomland. He was eager to show her the nest he had devised for them. But Doris checked him with her hand. "I hear the falls," she said. "Listen!" Streaming down through a gorge from melting snowfields the creek a little way beyond plunged with a roar over granite ledges.
Groves of aspens stood isolated from one another here crowning a hill with blazing yellow, and there fringing the brow of another with gleaming gold, and lower down reflecting the sunlight with brilliant red and purple. The valley seemed filled with a delicate haze, almost like smoke. White Slides Ranch was hidden from sight, as it lay in the bottomland.
January 9 the Colorado River was reached, and the command and its impedimenta were ferried over on the same raft contrivance that had proven ineffective on the Gila. Colonel Cooke, in his narrative concerning the practicability of the route he had taken, said: "Undoubtedly the fine bottomland of the Colorado, if not of the Gila, will soon be settled; then all difficulty will be removed."
It was originally a large grant, but has been partially subdivided. It contains some good bottomland, but is mostly adapted to grazing. "The most northerly grant in the State is that formerly owned by the late Major Redding. It is partially subdivided. Like the Dye grant, it contains some rich bottom-land, but, like it, is mostly adapted for grazing and grape growing.
Away below, on the shadowed bottomland, which could be reached only by feet trained to difficult descents, strange plants grew rank in the moisture of the waterfall, and misshapen rocks wrapped their nakedness in heavy folds of unknown mosses and nameless fern-growths.
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