I had become utterly tired of my tramping tour.

She listened to the tramping feet and merry voices with a heart that sank ever lower and lower.

This broken country, covered with pine and cedar, and clothed with bunch grass and grama, makes a capital tramping-ground, especially in winter, when rabbits, mountain grouse and sage-hens are numerous enough to make it worth while to shoulder a gun.

" Then he obliged me, and to cheer me up he told me about a little tramping experience he had in Baja California.

A piece of ground was then cleared, the grain laid down on the "tramping floor" and oxen driven around until the grain was all tramped out.

So in swift sequence drove succeeded drove, And all the champaign, all the highways swarmed With tramping oxen; all the sumptuous leas Rang with their lowing.

Then, again, he would keep a tramping round from one drinking place to anotherbut never getting drunk that I could seetill twelve or one o'clock at night.

The sound of the gate latch was heard, and footsteps were approaching the doornot the bounding step of Maggie, but a tramping tread, followed by a heavy knock, and next moment a tall, heavy-built man appeared before her, asking shelter for the night.

They paused for a moment to watch the game, and during a lull Alice remarked: "When does the tramping club start?"

"The day before she was to drive to Edentown," repeated Norma, "a band of Indians from the reservation in the next state came through on their annual tramping trip and walked in on poor little grandma as she sat at her mahogany secretary turning over her jewels and counting her beautiful shining gold.

She sat down beside it and listened to the tramping crowds below.

The French say, C'est la soupe qui fait le soldat, and we have always found on a tramping expedition nothing so life-restoring after fatigue and hunger as the portable soup now so easily obtained at places where prepared food is put up for travellers' uses.