34 WILD I'LOWI'RS OF COLORADO. 



given of it. It would have made a valuable addition to my 

 collection. 



Our drive back to Salida was a deliirhtful one ; the settinir 

 sun threw lovely tinted shadows on the mountains and the road- 

 side looked like a flower garden because of the hundreds of prim- 

 roses in full bloom. 



It was with some regret that we left the hotel and again took 

 up our quarters in the car ; but as we expected to start \Try early 

 in the morning Dick advised our moving in the night before. 

 We had gotten fairly settled when a rap was heard on the car 

 door, and on being answered, the farmer whom we had met the 

 day before came in. He said he had heard that we not only 

 traveled in the can but ate and slept there also, and he had a 

 great curiosity to see it. He was shown the arrangements of the 

 berths, ready for the night, the miniature kitchen and all of its 

 appointments, the little tables used ; and Dick, with much pride, 

 arranged a dainty lunch upon one for him. 



We found him a very intellioent and interestinij man. He 

 told us about the ranch he had "taken up" some eight years ago. 

 His home had been in Iowa, and the second )ear after his mar- 

 riage he and his wife came to Colorado. "We traveled quite 

 differently from this," he said ; "and yet when we left home 

 father thought we had a ^ood start. Wc came in our own 

 wagons, and had good horses. It took us two weeks and four 

 days to make the trip. A neighbor's son came out here the year 

 before, and so we knew just how to come. We ha\e a nice place 



