I couldn't keep up with him--he shore takes long steps--an' I lost him.

I'm reckonin' he went over the second wall.

Then I made tracks for the top.

Boys, the way you can see an' hear things down in thet canyon, an' the way you can't hear an' see things is pretty funny." "If Wallace went over the second rim wall, will he get back to-day ?" we all asked.
"Shore, there's no tellin'." We waited, lounged, and slept for three hours, and were beginning to worry about our comrade when he hove in sight eastward, along the rim.
He walked like a man whose next step would be his last.

When he reached us, he fell flat, and lay breathing heavily for a while.
"Somebody once mentioned Israel Putnam's ascent of a hill," he said slowly.