UNTRODDEN WAYS 



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UNTRODDEN WAYS 



THE Canon Hotel, the ways 

 divide. The stage lines run 

 westwardly to Norris Basin, and, 

 stopping there for lunch, make an 

 afternoon's drive to Mammoth 

 Hot Springs, on the northern 

 boundary of the Park. 



The ladies elected to go that way while we, 

 with Dudgeon and our surrey, pursued the unfre- 

 quented road directly north to the petrified forest, 

 the buffalo plateau, thence back to Camp Roose- 

 velt and west to Mammoth Springs. 



^'Untrodden ways" is a slight exaggeration, 

 but, while the road is good, it is little used by tour- 

 ists who follow the stage route. But if you have 

 the time, it is the only way. Up to this point I 



