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belongings even to the kitten — wliieli 

 was unfortunately captured by an owl. 

 Another workman brought his newly 

 made bride for a honeymoon trip. 

 He, it was said, had been the victim of 

 the folly of the higher education. Hav- 

 ing been at school and therefore quali- 

 fied to act as postmaster, he had tried 

 to defraud the government, for which 



horses; and families near our camps 

 were sure to make similar requests. 



As I glance back over this last won- 

 derful summer, with its kaleidoscopic 

 changes, my mind is crowded with 

 varied images. With scarcely any pause 

 in our daily travel from the last of 

 ^lay until the last of October, except 

 for the month at Aztec, new scenes kept 



Measuring the rooms and taking an inventory of the contents occupy a large part of the time when 

 i-ation is in full swing. In the background of this picture, taken at San Cristobal, may be seen the 



remains of a church built by the Spaniards some three hundred years ago 



he had spent one year in the "pen." 

 Apparently, however, this experience 

 had not detracted in the least from his 

 own or his bride's admiration for him- 

 self. Before leaving camp he begged 

 that their pictures might be taken as 

 souvenirs of their happ}^ time there. 

 This matter of having pictures taken, 

 by the way, was something that greatly 

 fascinated the natives, even the Indian 

 boys sometimes requesting it. A group 

 of cowboys one day held us up for a 

 half hour while they posed on their 



unfolding before us. Towering cliffs, 

 weathered into all sorts of fantastic 

 and beautiful shapes, melted into vast 

 plains of sagebrush-covered sand, again 

 to be replaced by pinon and cedar-tim- 

 bered hills carpeted with many kinds 

 of wild flowers. 



Little Mexican towns are tucked 

 away in the most unexpected places, the 

 low adobe houses so blending with the 

 general landscape that if it were not 

 for the relief afforded by strings of 

 scarlet peppers and by a few fruit and 



