an' do what ye can. I'll hold yer horse."

So Henri began by a rush and a flourish of legs and

arms that nearly frightened the horse out of his wits.

For half-an-hour he went through all the complications

of running and twisting of which he was capable, without

success, when Joe Blunt suddenly uttered a stentorian

yell that rooted him to the spot on which he

stood.

To account for this, we must explain that in the

heights of the Rocky Mountains vast accumulations of