I brought yards of rope." They walked to the rear of the station where buckboard and horse stood tethered to a tree.

He fastened his suit case to the rear of the vehicle, swathing it securely in, fathoms of rope; she sprang in, he followed; but she begged him to let her drive, and pulled on a pair of weather-faded gloves with a business-like air which was enchanting.
So he yielded seat and rusty reins to her; whip in hand, she steered the fat horse through the wilderness of arriving and departing carriages of every rural style and description--stages, surreys, mountain-waggons, buck-boards--drove across the railroad track, and turned up a mountain road--a gradual ascent bordered heavily by blackberry, raspberry, thimble berry and wild grape, and flanked by young growths of beech and maple set here and there with hemlock and white pine.

But the characteristic foliage was laurel and rhododendron--endless stretches of the glossy undergrowth fringing every woodland, every diamond-clear water-course.
"It must be charming when it's in blossom," he said, drawing the sweet air of the uplands deep into his lungs.

"These streams look exceedingly like trout, too.

How high are we ?" "Two thousand feet in the pass, Kelly.