“You have seen locomotives!”
“Ah, that I have. They are plenty now in Mexico.”
“Well, this is built on the same principle, only in the shape of a horse and designed to go without rails.”
“Si, senor, now I see!” cried the Mexican, spurring his horse nearer; “but it is a wonderful thing.”
“Everybody thinks so!” said Frank, modestly.
“Yet it would be as naught and the senors as well should you enter yonder valley.”
“Ah,” said Frank, “then that is really the death valley!”
“Si, senor!”
“A terrible place!”
“Indeed. Many worthy people have lost their lives in that death trap.”