II THE PLAIN OF SILENCE I am an old man.

The finest of the Kaweah section of the belt is on the broad ridge between Marble Creek and the middle fork, and extends from the granite headlands overlooking the hot plains to within a few miles of the cool glacial fountains of the summit peaks.

Now these two distinct harvests of flood waters were gathered simultaneously and poured out on the plain in one magnificent avalanche.

It is curious how things will lay around in a man's memory, every now and then startin' up and presentin' themselves, ready to be talked aboutreeled offas it were, and then how quietly they coil themselves away, to lay there, till some new sight, or sound, or idea, or feelin' stirs 'em into life, and they come up again fresh and plain as ever.

The endurance of the species is shown by its wandering occasionally out over the lava plains with the Yellow Pine, and climbing moraineless mountain-sides with the Dwarf Pine, clinging to any chance support in rifts and crevices of storm-beaten rocksalways, however, showing the effects of such hardships in every feature.

Much amazed, I glanced down to the Plain from which I was still rising.

We set off within an hour after Sergeant Corney and I brought in the prisoners, and were marched boldly across the plain on a bee-line for the batteries without hearing a single note of alarm.

It lies along the river in a single street, not many miles from the point where Wolfe climbed to the Plains of Abraham.

" THE CAPTIVE'S LAMENT Where Andalusia's plains at length end in the rocky shore, And the billows of the Spanish sea against her boundaries roar, A thousand ruined castles, that were once the haughty pride Of high Cadiz, in days long past, looked down upon the tide.

In following this stream into 'the gulf,' you walked on a level plain between walls of rock, rising two or three hundred feet on either hand, and a dozen or more rods apart, until you came to 'the falls,' down which the stream rushed with a plunge and a roar, when its back was up, or over which, in the dry season, it quietly rippled.

This sad event left my mother and the family in poor circumstances, and I determined to follow the plains for a livelihood for them and myself.

The two armies came in sight of one another in a great plain near the confines of the province of Peshawur.

I find that most of the women I think pretty are considered next door to plain by my lady-friends.

They left the swamp, crossed a plain over which a fire had swept the preceding year, climbed a ridge, and descended into a second plain.

I, too, can dream dreams and see visions, and it is borne in on me that your road is plain before you.

In the mean time the Marquis of Cadiz, the Count de Tendilla, the Count de Cabra, and Don Alonzo Fernandez, Senior of Alcandrete and Montemayor, drew up their forces in battle array on the plain below the hamlet, presenting a living barrier of loyal chivalry between the sovereigns and the city.

At Atawineh, Sausage Ridge, Hareira, and Teiaha there were defences supporting each other on high ground overlooking an almost flat plain through which the wadi Ghuzze runs.

She was looking across the plains beyond the boundless pine forests that lay between Thors and the Volga.

The radiant, honeyful corollas, touching and overlapping, and rising above one another, glowed in the living light like a sunset skyone sheet of purple and gold, with the bright Sacramento pouring through the midst of it from the north, the San Joaquin from the south, and their many tributaries sweeping in at right angles from the mountains, dividing the plain into sections fringed with trees.

The blue Coast Range was seen stretching along the sky like a beveled wall, and the somber, craggy Marysville Buttes rose impressively out of the flooded plain like islands out of the sea.

Little towns of canvas, gay with bordered walks and flowers, were dotted on the dusty plains about and within the city.

She's over there," said he, with another sob, pointing vaguely to the great plain beneath their feet, extending far, far away into the blue distance, where the crimson sun was now setting.

The Italian High Command, on the other hand, considered that the relative strength and morale of the opposing Armies was now such that we could attack on the plain without fear of a successful counter-attack in the mountains, and that, the attack on the plain once well under way, we could pass to the offensive in the mountains also.

The following morning the plains around the ranch where I was stopping were covered with six inches of snow, while over a foot of snow covered the mountains.

Just as little right have a married couple to tell me by speeches, and looks that are scarce less plain than speeches, that I am not the happy man,the lady's choice.