124 BOOK OF A HUNDRED BEARS 



describe it, but, when you approach the Morning 

 Glory Spring, language fades, the vocabulary halts, 

 the palette is worthless. Go and see it. Don't 

 ask me to describe it. 



The show place of the Park is Old Faithful Inn. 

 By the way, do you know the difference between 

 an inn and an hotel? Two dollars a day; and Old 

 Faithful is worth it. If you have been in northern 

 waters, you know those great, high-peaked log 

 houses that decorate the Fjords of Norway. One 

 of them has been transplanted to the Yellowstone, 

 but magnified until you hardly know it. Fifteen 

 thousand square miles of woodland have been 

 searched to make a harmonious construction. It 

 is a log house sublimated, raised to the 'nth 

 degree. The lobby is sixty feet from floor to 

 ceiling. The great chimney holds twelve fire- 

 places. The great brass clock ticks off the hours 

 with a pendulum twelve feet long. Gallery above 

 gallery the floors rise, and, crowning all, is an obser- 

 vatory from which the great search light illumi- 

 nates Old Faithful and flashes the message of 

 civilization to the wandering bears in the nearby 



