A TRIP FROM CAMP 



Saturday the nineteenth. 



"What's to-day, Jimmy?" queried Art. 



"Saturday." 



"Gee. You don't say so. Feels like we'd been away from 

 Chicago seventeen years — not that I miss anything. And the 

 days go fast, too. And we haven't been doing such an awful lot." 



"Yes, don't they," regretted the artist. "And I 've got only 

 one pair of eyes and one pair of hands." 



"The next week will go faster," assured William. "You 

 haven't seen the real stuff yet. We're going over to the north 

 fork this morning." You'd better pack some extra sketching 

 material." 



With the boat loaded into the wagon, together with mid-day 

 grub, and shooting, fishing, and sketching "ictas," an early start 

 was made, with Jay for driver, William sharing the front seat with 

 him, and Art and the artist comfortably disposed on the boat, 

 with all the tobacco and matches they needed. The other Jay 

 trotted with vast content beside the wagon, and amused himself 

 hugely on the way by following grouse trails through the sage- 

 brush. 



With dexterous care Whitman guided the heavy wagon 

 through fir brush and up the steep bank on to the plateau above. 

 Through fir woods standing in sage, and east of the southern end 

 of a great fir-crowned, rounding rise known as Horse Butte, we 

 came into lovely natural meadows of wild hay, which swept away 

 in long, subtly rolling curves to the crown of the butte south 

 and west, and to the north were bounded by a range of low hills, 

 thickly fir clad, beyond whose heights lies the Tepee basin. Pass- 

 ing the south end of Horse Butte a momentary glimpse is had of 

 Mount Sawtelle, 14,000 feet, far to the southwest, and a little 

 later, passing the pine woods that on the right had masked the view, 

 Mount Holmes, a ten-thousand-foot height in Yellowstone Park, 

 crowns the northern horizon. West, across the low heights of 

 Horse Butte, which extends some miles, marking the southern 

 boundary of the basin of the north fork, extends the great chain 



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