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