Show WALK WITH Chaplain Clemens of the United States Army Describes for Our Readers a Walk Over the Why don't you Especially you who have been in school or office or you need a Oh and no place to and nothing to and no fun in I You have evidently not learned about especially as to times and The Critic and I take one or two good walks each and perhaps you will not think it presumption if I tell you that the winter time is the best and most time to and that the best time to take a winter walk is when it is The walk on which I propose to allow you to accompany us was taken on February Friday if you will About two inches' of snow had that That was much to our as Ave could tell which of our wild neighbors had been prowling about during the It will take you from ten to twenty minutes to reach Fort If you wish to walk with the Critic and you must go with us to the top of the high hill to the left of Red Butte this We start between four and five o'clock tonight at I carry a The Critic says the conventionalities of society give her enough to carry without a Be sure to keep your eyes open and cut off all shop also all parlor for you are now about to walk in the sacred aisles of You should either talk in whispers or a very low as you are not the preachers of the Allow the things about you to do all the talking that except a word now and then from The Critic sees so many more things than you do that there is some advantage in permitting her a few words when you I Have a To strike the head off a flower I think a species of but I admit the habit of striking certain I like to see the seeds The Critic does not think that a lovely trait in a nature but I defend failing my by arguing that it helps the plant to scatter its Of I am compelled to own that the bare stem is not quite so beautiful as the stem with the I usually give way to the Critic's opinions on these subjects perhaps because I long ago learned that a debating society is not a profitable institution in a The first thing I see to strike is the hard shelled which some persons call and the scientists call The stems are from a foot to two feet m height and just loaded with goes the How they ft like a boy to See l give another 1 interferes P my Here i. W head ff has been having 1 got caught at immediately help ff to t me take your It reminds tte J I have picked up bet I try to pull jt 1 but it seems to k its claws into meshes of that flimsy y f determined to get eveni for disturbing its hooks bend in all have it and the veil is not very One cannot help sunflower many of I hare by some of the people that Brigham Young them into this part of the I called up the who has lived with the fin your state and studied i thirty and asked la is He told me Be this as it u are a great very few seeds fly when j them at time of 1 of and ma besides the whose dainty tracks yon stalk to have gott them their winter Climb the Hill Leave the sunflower m climb the your chest and push shoulders and like ij pigeon or like a soldier on J You do not walk with and Let themi where they and sate energy for the ward a little if you cline that Dof straight at the but and ahead of Tb faint streak of a trail f the hill Take Of tie Ten to mal first made how to walk in the 2 Here we strike that it is bare in some pl snow soon blows from from the rm the crusty formation on first thought the L but now perceive that the formed the lime of this re- rocks and even sticks in the water of the h t Stop a L are on the first Now Study the cow Els at the other side of that H The sentinels have and so they have H tracks to show us how to U on a ve the City's Smoke and h eye back at the Lice the smoke coming toward w. The wind is bringing it at 71 peat rate of The wind little but we k the Critic to observe that it stop blowing as as the sinks below that cloud near Se horizon or below the Oquirrh Work out that Climb 0 the top of the next Step on the projecting They give you a good especially if you have no bIs in your Do not argue with the Critic about the mi when going up a 1 top always reminds me of e k Lincoln's story of the little on the Ohio m stopped every time it because it had not steam gh to propel the boat and 1 jT the Keep your shut and your eyes pe reached the top and looked r the brow of the little I f took hold of our blouse are always safe in saying when with your i I expected to s 1 as we have seen so is J of them at this place as to f it as their trysting i wave beautiful stories of Jr Pip and marriage about i we ran upon two here a ago when walking in yellow the grass y the color of beau- c bunches of gold- Wat j of the snow in Tt is ver blue- laugh as we think of some lc to admire a pic- the artist Painted a and blue U dePend upon when A J be careful not p on the little clumps of cac- Critic is the name of this little red with a more beautiful crown than was ever worn by the wealthiest and most powerful pope or is an commonly called as it belongs to the buckwheat a fancy drinking cup could be patterned from this other little seed We are told it is the pod of the common wild and think it as beautiful as the blue flower which we find so abundantly in the early spring Another Resting The sun is just disappearing behind the The wind has ceased to The perspiration no longer flows so While you rest a take a close look at the stately little yellow stalk the Critic hands It is only a common aster stalk with dried Look a little It becomes larger and more interesting as you What a model fruit dish it would make for the table of a It is lined with polished The seeds have left beautiful indentations at the bottom of the We are told that the outside the Surely we have seen some attempt to imitate the outside of the I The outside decoration reminds me of the attempts at decoration I have seen on the brass vessels of the half wild tribes of the and of the pictures in mother's large family are the little slender leaves still clinging to the suppose to help make it as beautiful as the flower stalk of which it is the We have not time to set up a playhouse with the many platters and other but must hasten toward the When we come to a clump of little we discuss the reason of their growing here and not and notice that they have gathered the snow about them like greedy misers hoarding This explains one reason for their existence and On the We wade the snow near the top of the hill and wallow through the which the north winds have deposited along the top on the south Following along the we see many i which stems of the is commonly called Mormon bis because the early followers of Joseph were said to have used the roots very extensively for food in the times of the for The snow lies deep on that little We go to the other end of the where we flushed a large grouse the first time we came to this We intended to return from this but the Critic always wants to go If we go to the top of the next hill it will make us late to We are told we think too much of and decide to go a little From this time our attention is to more lively things than We had not gone a hundred yards before we ran across the tracks of a We knew he had just There had been a skiff of snow that morning and the sun had been warm all At any we knew they seldom come out before We are all Going to the edge of the hill we cautiously peep over and look but can catch no sight of He is walking very and we decide to go back and follow the brow of the ridge where he cannot see us from the side When we reach the on which some person has placed a we cannot catch sight of After scanning the hill to be sure he is not in we advise the Critic to pitch her inside her as there are about three or four feet of snow on the hillside toward Dry this is being we watch the magpies making their to their and try to the number of places in these canyons where they find proper shelter for the cold winter The Because I am the I lead the After going a few rods I look back to laugh at the Critic through the deep I search the side of the opposite hill once more and see Pointing it out as it creeps along a 1 say it cannot be a Sly chum it and when it comes to that little elevation and as-t the characteristic pose they take in looking things over to see T If all is I am compelled to another It is our I of the We stand and watch him slowly making his way along the b stops now and then to nibble lie is evidently very Now I fancy I hear some ne that is like the story of the woodchuck climbing a ift Of most people think coyotes live on and the flesh of other animals So they do if they can but sometimes the price of meat soars so high as to be out Tf their and then they it and live on twigs and k I have seen where they have made L a very abundant meal on these things and knew it was not the work of rabbits or because the fresh tracks of the coy- otes led to fhe place and there were no other tracks on the recently fallen Some persons we think without good to ridicule the writers of the Seaton school for reading so much of the life of the wild things from their Tracks are good The litle wolf is a mile away on the opposite so yon will not laugh too much at me for arguing with the Critic that it was a I does not see and we are able to study it at a good Ho it picks its way along the You are always wise to follow the trails of animals in the At last the boy M spirit in me leads me to want to see it and I call as loudly as I It does not seem to but at last catches sight of us as it stops on one of its for it bounds down the side of the little gully into lower ground amongst the Down we go through the deep had not intended to make a but such a trip certainly makes one feel The Critic when we come to a suggests that we coast as we did a few evenings but the opponent warns against such an effort as there is no crust strong enough to bear The night referred to we had the greatest Under the recent fall of about four inches of snow was a crust that was very disagreeable when one broke through every other thought we would try to sled ourselves down on I lay on my back and started to slide carrying an of snow with Now some persons are so constituted that they think they must try to do every they see others and I soon heard the Critic or I'll run into Sure there was a in another Thus we went whizzing down the The tops of the sturdy little white oaks sticking through the snow only served to break our speed so as to make it safe if we should happen to meet an You I left both the track and the subject in that last Down Dry we reached the canyon we were not as wise as we should have for we did not take time to remove our rubber boots and empty the but started on a dog trot down the The snow is too deep at that height to run very so we wade it and look about Soon we come to another coyote track and are sorry we were not more We observe the easy places he finds to climb the steep banks and come down again to the bottom of the In a few minutes we strike another track coming to meet this and they proceed together and we read part of their romance from the writing they leave in the We hope to see but the maple and oak bushes are so thick that although they are very near we do not catch sight of and feel as- if there are at least four if not four hundred eyes looking from the bushes at The We trot along for a distance and frighten out a little junco and are sorry to make him leave his bed among the roots under the On to where the rocks overhang the trail and we hear a little whir of the see an owl leaving He does not make as much noise as the little for he depends on the silence of his flight to approach mice and such other things as bring him his He flies around the corner just at the division of the and perches on the top of a maple What a wise looking old fellow he As we have again put on our woods he does not mind but lets us pass without As we near the gate of the reservation fence we look up the hill to the and there on one of the posts sits We pass near enough to see that it is a short eared owl What a romantic As the dusk she waits for him to come and find I fancy if he does not happen to come her she will find some excuse to along by his At any we have our opinion of her as she sits there twisting her head around to look at us as we We turn up the road which cuts the hillside and make a near cut to the When we come to the top we look about and then go straight on over the little bench and make our way homeward above the old target I shall not tell you what more we for some day I expect to take you for a up Dry canyon with a Have you enjoyed the More than you should have enjoyed going so far with do not go so far the first Walk half a mile first next time a and each time a little You do not imagine the real joy which courses through one whose muscles are so in tune with walking as to sing them a continuous song during the few miles' You cannot afford the I assure you from positive knowl-elge you cannot afford not to take the The f described took less of our and of doing two days' extra next Not only M to do it better and a your brain pleasant memories and J You could not see M have not described half and yet have written hi much as I had intended fr when I began to describe I took no notes' the 1 jotted down a few j evening as part of my After such a little never dreams of chasing them l other and JOSEPH i |