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graphs I have given you on these pages. 

 Most of the rocks h;ive been named ; and 

 people imagine that these rocks bear like- 

 nesses to different animals. As the rocks 

 and cliffs are all variegated with different 

 colors, mostly red and yellow, various land- 

 scapes and pictures are pointed out. These, 



er, horses, passengers on top and inside, and 

 luggage behind. 1 * 



1 smiled somewhat as I turned back, and 

 now for the first time allowed my imagina- 

 tion to see in the coloring of the rocks what 

 she had described. I have from childhood 

 had a very vivid imagination, and can re- 



NEBDLE HOCKS, 



however, draw so strongly on the imagina- 

 tion that few people can see them until they 

 are " educated up to it," if I may use the 

 term ; and various maps and paintings 

 adorn the reception-room of this hotel, giv- 

 ing an exaggerated view of the paintings to 

 be seen on the rocks. For instance : Said 

 the lady, — 



GARDEN OF THE GODS. 



member as long as forty years ago of seeing 

 pictures in the clouds, and, in my mind's 

 eye, building up a romance that so absorbed 

 me it was like a fairy-tale or a story from 

 the Arabian Nights ; and when I found here 

 at the Garden of the Gods that they were 

 making a science, almost, of this matter of 

 seeing wonderful paintings where the ordi- 



VIEW OF THE INTEItlOIt OK THE uAUDEN OF 'HIE GODS 



" Can you see that stage-coach just on the 

 summit of yonder range of cliffs V " 



I was obliged to confess that I could not 

 see any stage-coach at all — nothing like it. 



"Well, now, turn around and look at the 

 picture up there on the wall. You see there 

 the old-fashioned stage-coach with its driv- 



nary individual saw nothing at all, it made 

 me smile again. For the first time since my 

 long walk in the morning 1 began to feel 

 that it was dinner-time ; but my good friend 

 told me there was no remedy. They were 

 not prepared to give anybody a dinner, so I 

 had the prospect of two miles and a half be- 



