If he returns that way, I'll put him up a tree." With this, he unchained Sounder and Don, and stalked off under the trees, looking like an Indian.

Once the deep bay of Sounder rang out; Jones's sharp command followed, and then the familiar silence encompassed the forest and was broken no more.
When I awoke all was gray, except toward the canyon, where the little bit of sky I saw through the pines glowed a delicate pink.

I crawled out on the instant, got into my boots and coat, and kicked the smoldering fire.

Jim heard me, and said: "Shore you're up early." "I'm going to see the sunrise from the north rim of the Grand Canon," I said, and knew when I spoke that very few men, out of all the millions of travelers, had ever seen this, probably the most surpassingly beautiful pageant in the world.

At most, only a few geologists, scientists, perhaps an artist or two, and horse wranglers, hunters and prospectors have ever reached the rim on the north side; and these men, crossing from Bright Angel or Mystic Spring trails on the south rim, seldom or never get beyond Powell's Plateau.
The frost cracked under my boots like frail ice, and the bluebells peeped wanly from the white.