SWAYING TREE TOPS 



future. This comes only when the last 

 whistle of the departing train is heard. 



The station building on the Santa 

 Fe was made of boards, nailed per- 

 pendicularly, and there was no plat- 

 form but a bed of cinders. The few 

 houses about the station were wide 

 apart and surrounded by sage bush. 

 The sandy roads ran across each other 

 for a half mile square, dragging the 

 houses with them, then all the houses 

 were dropped and a single road went 

 on up the sloping valley to the foot- 

 hills, five miles distant. While the 

 road could " shake " the houses and 

 leave them tumbled behind, it could 

 not leave us, and its very independ- 

 ence, as it went mount ainward, was 

 its attractiveness. 



The air was heavy with the odor of 



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