me as if I never again wanted walls to
close in on me. All my fear was gone,
and I felt wild and glad. I could not
believe that I was only a little girl. I
felt taller even than my father.

Father's mood was like mine in a
way. He had memories to add to his
emotion, but then, on the other hand,
he lacked the sense of discovery I had,
for he had known often such feelings
as were coming to me for the first time.
When he was a young man he had been
a colporteur for the American Bible So-
ciety among the Lake Superior Indians,
and in that way had earned part of the
money for his course at the University
of Michigan; afterward he had gone
with other gold-seekers to Pike's Peak,
and had crossed the plains with oxen,
in the company of many other adven-
turers; then, when President Lincoln
called for troops, he had returned to
enlist with the Michigan men, and had
served more than three years with Mc-
Clellan and Grant.

So, naturally, there was nothing he
did not know about making himself
comfortable in the open. He knew all