All Heroes But One 



it, to realize that the best of life lies in the daily 

 needs of existence, and to battle for them ! 



Nothing could be stronger than the simple enumer 

 ation and statement of the facts of Wallace s expe 

 rience after he left Jim. He chased the cougar, and 

 kept it in sight, until it went over the second rim 

 wall. Here he dropped over a precipice twenty 

 feet high, to alight on a fan-shaped slide which spread 

 toward the bottom. It began to slip and move by 

 jerks, and then started off steadily, with an increasing 

 roar. He rode an avalanche for one thousand feet. 

 The jar loosened bowlders from the walls. When 

 the slide stopped, Wallace extricated his feet and 

 began to dodge the bowlders. He had only time to 

 jump over the large ones or dart to one side out of 

 their way. He dared not run. He had to watch 

 them coming. One huge stone hurtled over his head 

 and smashed a pifion tree below. 



When these had ceased rolling, and he had passed 

 down to the red shale, he heard Sounder baying near, 

 and knew a cougar had been treed or cornered. 

 Hurdling the stones and dead pifions, Wallace ran a 

 mile down the slope, only to find he had been deceived 

 in the direction. He sheered off to the left. 

 Sounder s illusive bay came up from a deep cleft. 

 Wallace plunged into a pinon, climbed to the ground, 

 skidded down a solid slide, to come upon an impassa- 



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