IV. 



[F you want to see elk, 

 you just follow up the 

 road till you strike a 

 trail on the left, up over 

 that hog's back, and 

 that will bring you in 

 a mile or so on to a grassy flat, and in 

 two or three miles more you come to a 

 lake back in the mountains." 



Mrs. Cummings, the speaker, was no 

 ordinary woman of Western make. She 

 had been imported from the East by 

 her husband three years before. She 

 had been ' forelady in a corset factory/ 



