MOUNT RAINIER 



Loolowcan, in a resinous voice, "Mamook chaco cuitan ; 

 make come horse." 



Loolowcan, in more genial mood than I had known 

 him, drove the trio out from the long grass. They 

 came forth not with backward hankerings, but far 

 happier quadrupeds than when they climbed the pass 

 at noon. It was a pleasure now to compress with 

 the knees Klale, transformed from an empty barrel 

 with protuberant hoops, into a full elastic cylinder, 

 smooth as the boiler of a locomotive. 



"Loolowcan, my lad, my experienced guide, cur 

 nesika moosum ; where sleep we?" said I. 



"Copa Sowee house, kicuali. Sowee, olyman 

 tyee, memloose. Sia-a-ah mitlite ; At Sowee's 

 camp below. Sowee, oldman chief, dead. It is 

 far, far away," replied the son of Owhhigh. 



Far is near, distance is annihilated this brilliant day 

 of summer, for us recreated with Hippocrene, straw- 

 berries, shade of fir and tall snow-fed grass. Down 

 the mountain range seems nothing after our long 

 laborious up; "the half is more than the whole." 

 "Lead on, Loolowcan, intelligent brave, toward the 

 residence of the late Sowee." 



More fair prairies linked themselves along the trail. 

 From these alpine pastures the future will draw butter 

 and cheese, pasturing migratory cattle there, when 

 summer dries the scanty grass upon the macadamized 

 prairies of Whulge. It is well to remind ourselves 

 sometimes that the world is not wholly squatted over. 

 The plateau soon began to ebb toward the downward 

 slope. Descent was like ascent, a way shaggy and 

 abrupt. Again the Boston hooihut intruded. My 

 friends the woodsmen had constructed an elaborate 

 inclined plane of very knobby corduroy. Klale sniffed 

 at this novel road, and turned up his nose at it. He 

 was competent to protect that feature against all the 

 perils of stumble and fall on the trails he had been 

 educated to travel, but dreaded grinding it on the 



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