weaver. Nowhere else in America can there be found more 
-peautiful flower meadows. Lupines, asters, monkey flowers, 
gentians, heather vie with one another to find space to 
spread their blossoms; no bit of ground is _ unused. 
Avalanche lilies, Indian paint brush, buttercups, anemones, 
squaw grass, all have their favorite places where they may 
form part of the wreath that almost encircles the mountain. 
They care not that for many years they may blossom unseen 
by any. eyes except those of the wild creatures that also love | 
this region. 
To the thoughtful tourist this region might seem 
uninhabited, but a bird lover with a good pair of glasses. 
Soattic Token by Mr. Ronald Chapman 
A Bobbing Water Ouzel 
will find here many friends and will make, perhaps, a few 
acquaintances on any of the flower meadows of Rainier. One 
such person resting wearied feet in a stream below the shelf 
Bot that aged snowfield, known locally as Broadway, had her 
expectations realized. 
| There above the flowery meadows of Suniner Land she 
saw, again, another bobbing water ouzel, and, for the first | 
time, a Hepburn Leucosticte, or Rosy Finch, and its young. 
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