Ye just set it afire and out comes the warm sunlight for days like this.

God takes pretty good care of us--don't He ?" The heat of other fires had eaten away a few inches of the base of the rock.

Under its overhang some one had written with a black coal the words "Bear Valley Camp." On this suggestion the children called for a bear story, and lying back on the green mat of boughs, Samson told them of the great bear of Camel's Hump which his father had slain, and many other tales of the wilderness.
They lived two days in this fragrant, delightful shelter until the storm had passed and the last of their corn meal had been fed to the horses.
They were never to forget the comfort and the grateful odors of their camp in Bear Valley.
On a warm, bright day in the sand country after the storm they came to a crude, half finished, frame house at the edge of a wide clearing.

The sand lay in drifts on one side of the road.

It had evidently moved in the last wind.