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that in order to do so \vc must climh the mountains to the west. 

 And this is true, as we soon discovered. 



At the station we found such a pretty little hotel that we 

 decided to leave the car and spend the ni^ht in it, and great 

 was our delight when we discovered that here we could have 

 every luxury— even to a good bath-room with plenty of hot water. 

 In the rear of the house runs the Arkansas river. It is swift and 

 deep. Dick said he had been told on good authority that one 

 could sit in his room and fish for speckled trout out of the 

 window. But this I do not give as authentic. 



After supper we went over in town for a walk, and soon 

 found ourselves on the main street, which runs throucdi the 

 center of the town. On each side of the street were every 

 variety of shops, and every thing to attract the miner and 

 his money. 



The walk ms so pleasant that we decided to continue it 

 to the foot-hills at the end of the straight street, they looked 

 so near ; but after walking for more than an hour they seemed no 

 nearer to us than when we had stn.rtod. While hesitatino- about 

 gomg further, a boy passed us dr'ving home cows. One of 

 our party asked him if he would tell us how far it was to the 

 foot-hills. **Oh, I reckon it is anywhere from eight to a dozen 

 miles," he said. We were glad Dick was not with us to laugh at 

 our ignorance of distances. But it was not strange that we 

 should have made this mistake, as distance in the mountains 

 is very deceiving. Mountains that stand out so distinctly that 



