"This is a smooth one; but some canyons are really rough.

Do you remember, Mary, the day we got stuck up at the top of the Westmoreland, and had to unhitch the horses, and how I stood in the middle of the creek and yanked the carriage round while you held them?
That was the day we heard the mountain lion, and there were fresh bear-tracks all over the mud, you remember." "Good gracious!" cried Mrs.Watson, quite pale; "what an awful place! Bears and lions! What on earth did you go there for ?" "Oh, purely for pleasure," replied the doctor, lightly.

"We don't mind such little matters out West.

We try to accustom ourselves to wild beasts, and make friends of them." "John, don't talk such nonsense," cried his wife, quite angrily.

"Mrs.
Watson, you mustn't believe a word the doctor says.