A Little Journey to Some Strange Places and Peoples in Our Southwestern Land (New Mexico and Arizona): For Home and School, Intermediate and Upper GradesA. Flanagan Company, 1911 - 270 páginas |
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Página 252 - DAY! Faster and more fast, O'er night's brim, day boils at last : Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim Where spurting and suppressed it lay. For not a froth-flake touched the rim Of yonder gap in the solid gray Of the eastern cloud, an hour away ; But forth one wavelet, then another, curled, Till the whole sunrise, not to be suppressed, Rose, reddened, and its seething breast Flickered in bounds, grew gold, then overflowed the world.
Página 18 - I had undertaken no light task, I can assure you. There were hillsides to cut down, rocks to blast and remove, and bridges to build by the score. I built the road, however, and made it a good one, too. That was what brought the Santa Fe Trail through this way, and as the same trail extended to Chihuahua in Mexico, my twentyseven miles of turnpike constituted a portion of an international thoroughfare.109 After I got my road completed the next thing was to make it a paying investment.
Página 153 - Put your feet down with pollen. Put your hands down with pollen. Put your head down with pollen. Then your feet are pollen; your hands are pollen; your body is pollen; your mind is pollen; your voice is pollen. The trail is beautiful. Be still.
Página 37 - You have notified me that you intend to take possession of the country I govern. The people of the country have risen en masse in my defense. If you take the country, it will be because you prove the strongest in battle. I suggest to you to stop at the Sapello and I will march to the Vegas. We will meet and negotiate on the plains between them.
Página 155 - After they had passed the country of the cactus they came, in time, to .Saitad, the land of the rising sands. Here was a great desert of sands that rose and whirled and boiled like water in a pot, and overwhelmed the traveller who ventured among them. As the boys approached, the sands became still more agitated and the boys did not dare venture among them. "Who are ye ? " said the sands, " and whence come ye ? " " We are children of the Sun, we came from Dsi/naotf/, and we go to seek the house of...
Página 30 - New (Chicago, 1923), 142-43. Josiah Gregg states that the wagons then most in use (as of 1844) on the Trail were made in Pittsburgh, and were usually drawn by eight oxen or mules. More recently, he added, larger and men to manage the train. There was one driver to each wagon, and then the wagon-masters, who had a general oversight of the train, and the herders, who took charge of the stock when we went into camp, brought the number up to forty. In addition to the freight wagons we always had an ambulance...
Página 15 - ... that whatever the thing was, it had no business out there. So I blazed away at it and down it dropped. The shot roused everybody in camp, and they all came running out with their guns in their hands to see what was up. I told them I had seen what I supposed was an Indian trying to slip into camp and I had killed him. Very cautiously several of the men crept down to where the supposed dead Indian was lying. I stood at my post and listened for their report, and by and by I heard one of the men...
Página 19 - ... They had not been gone more than half an hour when I heard them talking, not far from my house, and a few seconds later I heard the half-suppressed cry of a man who had, I was satisfied, received his death blow. I had gone to bed, and lay for a minute or two thinking whether I should get up and go to the rescue of the man whose cry I had heard, or insure my own safety by remaining where I was. A little reflection convinced me that the murderers were undoubtedly watching my house to prevent any...
Página 154 - When the boys came to the edge of the field of reeds (ZokaadikLsi), the latter opened, showing a clear passage through to the other side. The boys pretended to enter, but retreated, and as they did so the walls of reeds rushed together to kill them. Thus four times did they deceive the reeds. Then the reeds spoke to them, as the rocks had done; they answered and repeated the sacred words. "Pass on to the house of your father," said the reeds, and the boys passed on in safety.
Página 20 - They were taken into custody and made a full confession, in which they stated that one of their number had stood at my door on the night of the murder to shoot me if I had ventured out to assist the corporal. Two of the scoundrels were hanged afterwards at Las Vegas and the third was sent to prison for life.