seemed to see before you a cliff, for though built of timbers, iron,
stone, staff, and boards, it wore the appearance of rock and earth. There
was a cavernous opening which had the effect of a canyon, and in niches
high up were the dwellings, in miniature, of the ancient people who once
lived among the tablelands of our southwestern territories; but portions
of the real houses were shown in order to give a perfectly truthful
impression to visitors; also there were relics of the old cliff dwellers
shown, such as weapons wrought from bones, stone, and wood; pottery, and
cloths and mattings woven from blades of the alfalfa plant.

There were to be seen also ledges of fallen rock with houses crushed
beneath and other houses built over them. Also winding paths led up the
cliffs and through to the outer air, and up these our friends climbed to
the summit, where they stood for a little enjoying the prospect now on
this side, now on that.

"Papa," asked little Elsie, "how long ago did people live in those houses
so high up among the rocks?"

"Nobody knows just how long ago, my child," he replied, "but probably
hundreds of years before Columbus discovered America."

The rest of the day was spent in the Midway Plaisance, a street three
hundred feet wide, beginning at the rear of the Woman's Building,
extending about a mile in length, and so full of interesting sights that
one might tarry there many hours, and go again day after day, without
wearying of them, but always finding something by which to be greatly
entertained.

"A good and most entertaining place for the study of mankind," as Mr.