teeth were poor and walked as though afflicted 

 with rheumatism. Suddenly this patriarch for- 

 got his age and fled precipitately, with almost 

 the speed of frightened youth. I leaped upon a 

 boulder to watch him, but was instantly knocked 

 headlong by a wild blast of wind. In falling I 

 caught sight of a straw hat and a wrecked um- 

 brella falling out of the sky. Rising amid the 

 pelting gale of flung hail, ice-water, and snow, 

 I pushed my way in the teeth of the storm, hop- 

 ing for shelter in the lee of a rock-pile about a 

 hundred yards distant. A lady's disheveled hat 

 blew by me, and with the howl of the wind 

 came, almost drowned, excited human utter- 

 ances. Nearing the rock-pile, I caught a vague 

 view of a merry-go-round of man and horse, 

 then a glimpse of the last gyration, in which an 

 elderly Eastern gentleman parted company with 

 a stampeded bronco. 



Five tourists had ridden up in the sunshine 

 to enjoy the heights, and the suddenness and 

 fierceness of the storm had thrown them into a 

 panic and stampeded their horses. They were 

 drenched and severely chilled, and they were 



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