DESERT GLIMPSES Mary V was indefatigably pursuing a new and apparently fascinating avocation, for which her mother expressed little sympathy, no enthusiasm whatever, and a grudgingly given consent.

Mary V was making a collection of Desert Glimpses for educational purposes at her boarding school.

She had long been urged to do so by her schoolmates and teachers, she told her mother, and now she was going to do it.

It should be the very best, most complete collection any one could possibly make within riding distance of the Rolling R.Incidentally she meant to collect jackrabbit ears and rattlesnake rattles, for the purpose of thrilling the girls, but she did not tell her mother that.

Neither did she tell her mother just why her quest always lay to the southward when there was plenty of desert to be glimpsed toward the north and to the east and the west.