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only to the 1ad4ye ha. but to the d       1o sucoession. 
The old man was dead row; in his later years his heart had thrilled only

to his bank mccount an  to the tally of his flock and herds, but the spen

revealed that in his yoth he too had folt the glory of the muntat* spwln.

The history of th m-tan ;ms written not only in aspen bar, but in its 
place-names. Cooont@ry place-ruais are lewd, humorous, ironic, or sentimental,

but seldom trite. Usually theiy are subtle enoug  to dmw inquiry froL2 now
arrivals# 
whserby has that web of tales which, full s   a. anstitutes the local folk-lore.

For exwaple, there was The  o oeyar", a lov3-  me;Aw where blue4.ls
ar6hed 
over the half-buried u        lls and samttered vortebrae of ows long slno
dead. Here 
in the 13800. a foolish cowmn. newly arrived frou the warm valleys of Texas,
had 
t  ted the allurements of the   wtala summer and suayed to wiuter his herd
an 
mountain hay. Whe the Noemb er storms hit>he and his horse bad floundered
out, 
but not his oow$. 
gain, there was "The Cambel1 BLie", a hadwater of the Blue River
to which 
an eary coman had brought himself a bride. The lady, tiring of roam and tree,

had yeaned for a piao, *    A iiao was duly fethed) There was only one male

in the couity capable of pit, and only on packer ouanble of the almost 
superuman task of bnaling uuoh a lod. Jt the iaino failed to bring content-

mont; the lady decaimped; uAn when the story was told me, the ranch csabin
was already 
Ain      there was  wijole Cienea., a mrey medow walled in by pines, under

which stoo4 in V d, a small lor cabin used by any passer-by as an overnight

cam.   It ws the unwritten law for the owner of such real estate to leave
flour, 
lard, and beans, and for the Passer-by to replenish such stock If he could.
But