In the evening we gathered around the camp-fire for the last time.

With him, a broken spirit meant a broken heart, and that night he lurked in one of the deepest shadows about the camp-fire and grieved alone.

"I saw a smoke last evening, too, which must have been made by a camp-fire.

AROUND THE CAMP-FIRE 12 III.

TELLS ABOUT CAMP-FIRE AND SKINNY XVIII.

That floating film told of a camp-fire of buffalo chips.

After it grew dark, they saw at a long distance from the road the light of a camp-fire.

The camp-fire is extinguished; the tent is furled.

" The trapper having wandered a few yards from the camp-fire, had paused suddenly and stood gazing at the ground.

Advancing some distance further, he suddenly came in full view of the camp-fire.

"I had just wrought myself up to the fancy that we were pioneers, the first people of our race to enter this primeval wilderness, when lo!" He extended his arm up-stream and to the right, where a star-like twinkle showed that a dwelling stood, or some parties had kindled a camp-fire.

When Brigham was questioned around the camp-fire at night, his only reply was that he would know the site of their new home when he saw it.

At night, when all was quiet about the camp-fire, he would come to me and rest his head on my knee with a look of devotion as if I were his god.

Picture themCALLOT'S free brush might have managed itgathered in pow-wow around the camp-fire, Sun-tanned and wind-browned, in picturesque raiment, with wisp of the wild hop or trail of the briar Hat-wreathed or button-holed.

Once through the obscuring branches the fitful yellow of a camp-fire was dimly visible, but the ravine twisted so that I could not determine whether this was from Federal or Confederate lines.

" Whereupon he picked up his saddle and walked on, very straight in the back and patently unashamed of the injustice of his charge; for it was the crowing of Valencia himself beside the San Vincente camp-fire that had brought Manuel with the message, and Valencia knew that perfectly well.

It was an enormous creature of its kind, drawn by hunger to the scraps of the camp-fire feast; and it was this animal, as it cautiously inspected the camp, that the young hunter had heard crunching in the snow.

Little streaks of light from the camp-fire played between the flaps of the tent.

VII That night the wind switched and blew cold from the north, and so strong that the camp-fire roared like a furnace.

After days of argument and camp-fire talks, this Southern route was agreed upon, and Capt. Hunt was chosen as guide.

Around the camp-fire that night, Pink gave us his experience in losing Mr. Medicine.

" Having worked up the proper interest in his listener, besides exacting a promise that he would not repeat the story where it might do injury to him, he dragged his saddle up to the camp-fire.

Our eyelids froze together while we were drinking tea; our soup, taken hot from the kettle, froze in our tin plates before we could possibly finish eating it; and the breasts of our fur coats were covered with a white rime, while we sat only a few feet from a huge blazing camp-fire.

To residents of California, who revel in the outdoor life of her mountains & valleys, the poem has a particular attraction for its camp-fire spirit which to us seems part and parcel of that outdoor life.

Her companion had vanished, and to her bewildered senses so had the camp-fire, even to its embers and ashes.