HARRIET— LITTLE MOUNTAIN CLIMBER 239 



columbine. Luckily we found a beautiful speci- 

 men with its silver and blue petals waving on a 

 slender stalk that stood several inches higher than 

 Harriet's head. The columbine is the state flower 

 of Colorado, having been selected by a majority 

 vote of the school children, and is mentioned for 

 our national flower. 



Harriet looked again and again at the strange 

 little trees at timberline and watched eagerly for 

 the bears. We talked about the things we had 

 seen. She asked many questions about the trips 

 other climbers had made, and I told her of ex- 

 periences on rainy days, on snowy days, and on 

 wintry days. She was most interested in my 

 moonlight climbs and wished she might some time 

 go up at night. 



Of the two hundred and fifty-odd trips which 

 I made as a guide to the summit of this great old 

 Peak, the trip with Harriet is the one I like best 

 to recall; and I am sure, too, should Harriet live 

 three score and ten years she will remember the 

 day of her successful climb to the summit of Long's 

 Peak. 



This climb, as I remember, was in September, 

 1905. Some years later I heard that Harriet was 

 graduated from a girls' college in Texas. I often 

 wonder what has become of her. 



