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Just as I had laid aside the order after reading it, Colonel Burton entered, and, taking a seat by my fireside, announced that he had been ordered on detached service to northern Colorado, on a tour of inspection, which would require him to be absent for a considerable period, and that he had been thinking of allowing his sons to accompany me to my camp at Los Valles Grandes.
Here, Vic," placing the chip once more in her mouth, "take this stick to the cook go!" The setter looked at me an instant, then at the sergeant and corporal, walked to the door, looked out, and then glanced questioningly at me. "Yes, little one; the cook go!" She bounded through the doorway and turned the corner of the butte at a run, bearing our summons to our comrades at Los Valles Grandes.
I am looking upon one of the "valles" of Mexico, those great table-plains that lie within the Cordilleras of the Andes, thousands of feet above ocean-level, and, along with these mountains, stretching from the tropic almost to the shores of the Arctic Sea. The plain before me is level, as though its surface were liquid. These mountains have no foot-hills.
Let us be wise in time, and profit by the errors of our older brethren! The influence of the forest in preventing inundations has been very generally recognized, both as a theoretical inference and as a fact of observation; but the eminent engineer Belgrand and his commentator Valles have deduced an opposite result from various facts of experience and from scientific considerations.
He accompanied me to camp, and since we arrived has been giving me the history of Vic, Sancho, and Chiquita." "And that, of course, included something of the history of their devoted attendants?" "Yes, I have learned something of the gallant deeds of Corporals Frank and Henry Burton and Lieutenant Duncan at Los Valles Grandes and on the march here. When I meet Corporal Frank I shall know you all."
"Lie down, lads," Des Valles shouted, and all set to work to loop-hole the wall. "Don't show your heads above it, unless they advance again. All we have got to do is to hold our ground." By the aid of their sword-bayonets the Franc-tireurs soon pierced the wall, and lying at full length a yard apart, replied to the enemy's fire.
Be this as it may, it was not Tennyson, nor any other of our poets, that I would have taken to my dreamed-of solitary cabin for companionship: Melendez came first to my mind. I think of his lines to a butterfly: De donde alegre vienes Tan suelta y tan festiva, Las valles alegrando Veloz mariposilla?*
Valles & 2 men had Some fiew goods to trade with the Sioux, a boy came to us, This Mr.
He reads the same papers and has the same passions. The three degrees of education have shown within the last year what they can accomplish: higher education made Prussia win; secondary education, bourgeois, produced the men of the 4th of September; primary education gave us the Commune. Its minister of public instruction was the great Valles, who boasted that he scorned Homer!
I had found social life in Santa Fé very pleasant during my brief stay there, so I was not overjoyed when I received the order to march my company to Los Valles Grandes, there to relieve the California company already referred to. But the order being peremptory, we packed our baggage during the first hours of the night, and were on the road soon after daybreak.
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