Show rIlE NEVER E KNEW START HERE SIL SlL PLAIT PLAT Slim IS I'S m Slimmer SUmmer was In tears He l' l ambitious and desired to become be be- come a Charleston dancer Ho He took tooka a correspondence course m Hey Hey Her Charleston he call out dally as the postman postman postman post post- man brought his lessons lie He s soon oon started calling the postman pro Alter All r. r months of oC hard wor work Slim Yas was s good He lie was a fine Charleston Charlesr Charles Charles- tOt ton tort dancer dancer- Then a terrible thing r happ happened ned The doctor told Slim he f would o have e to quit drink drinkins however has nothing to do 14 the tho present story In They to lever ever Knew a charming couple are Br on their honeymoon piS Jimpson Weed Veed marries Pearl c dle The other characters are i i marls marl's rl's father and two detectives Mr 1 and Mrs Gumshoe The latter L three bree r e are trying to part the happy f oung oung couple Fy l o 4 t CHAPTER 4 2 AHEAD AS As' As s' s the ne Preceding chapter ended Pe Pearly early had fallen out of oC an air ali plane She and had gone aboard donkeys along the Grand Grand' canon canyon rhen When they climbed into the plane t. t they y discovered too oo late that they Were unable to sit Donkeys Donke's can produce duce painful results 80 So do Pearl stood up in the pla plane e v The wind caught her and she fellY fell Y o er r the side Her husband 1 was as horror One down called watching watch- watch i ing g. g Ms his darling wife fall Call toward the earth 2000 feet below The plane had been traveling at atA ata A a. te t terrific rate of ot speed Now it ft descended to earth rth to gather up what was left leU of at the lovely Pearl Why Vh this Is Yellowstone park exclaimed the surprised looking lookIng look look- Ing about him at the won wonderful erful scenery So It is is said the aviator And Just think your wife is a apart apart apart part of ot this beautiful scenery now 4 S 'S Sv 55 5 t v t ta a a 4 C x S St t 4 N r Mrs Gum loved Old Man Handle Space prevented the romance from getting into this novel But we used the picture Anyway this chapter is about Yellowstone park You can see it illustrated on post postcards cards Yes said the young husband sad sadly probably scattered all about the place We Ve must get a basket and look for her Yellowstone national p park rk occupies occupies occupies pies a rectangular area in the northwestern corner bf of Wyoming overlapping o into Montana and Idaho Idaho Idaho Ida Ida- ho on the north and west Th The fore forests ts are almost wholly coniferous us but birches willows and poplars are not uncommon The only common tree and the only one monopolizing extensive forest areas is the pole lodge Pine This tree Is so EO common it fre fre- fre- fre climbs upon a a. hill hilI and I throws pine cones at unsuspecting tourists the dirty bum All wild animals with the exception exception tion tion of tourists are protected by bythe bythe bythe the government go The original geological structure of the park parl Is almost almost completely hidden by a great tertiary lava flow this being a first cousin to Scapa Flow but not r related to Flo feld The underlying sedimentary rocks range from Cambrian to Cretaceous but are chiefly Cretaceous as you probably know already alread Owing to the elevation the cli climate climate cU- cU mate is rigorous but not excessively cold Every year just as soon as the weather is warm arm enough the they have summer And every winter Just as soon soan as the weather is cold old enough they have winter This quite naturally comes as a surprise to the residents and their visitors All AU winters are the coldest coldest coldest cold cold- est in forty years and all the summers summers summers sum sum- mers are the hottest in tony years The mean temperature is at its meanest in July and January Here were and there are diurnal extremes but these usually are re either caged or chained I There is probably no region of oC equal area which excels Yellowstone Yellowstone Yellowstone Yellow Yellow- stone park in scenery piece One-piece bathing suits are worn by the women women women wo wo- wo- wo men in the lakes and numerous streams and ald the mountains are rea real I not Just painted upon Upun can can- va vas Springs of ot all kinds abound There is the regular spring which follows winter and which usually is a few weeks late Then there are hot springs cold springs lukewarm lukewarm lukewarm luke luke- warm springs and the guides frequently frequently fre tre- fre- fre do handsprings sometimes breaking their watch springs Many of ot the hotels have springs in some of their beds The ordinary springs of or Yellow Yellow- I stone park however may be in to two classes the non-eruptive non springs and the geysers Most of ot both classes are highly charged with mineral mineraI matter usually usual usual- ly siliceous Tourists when paying their bills also frequently find they have been highly charged The most famous of the non non- eruptive springs are the Mammoth l Hot Hat Springs so 50 named because they are so far from Mammoth Cave Ky and Hot Springs Ark There are at least seventy er eruptive eruptive p- p tive hot springs or geysers in the park Among the these e Old Faithful is the most regular in its intervals spouting every sixty-five sixty minutes and throwing a column of oC water feet teet high Really Yellowstone parks park's an awfully swell place It was among these exquisite sights that set forth with a basket to s seek k the remains of his lovely bride The place had been at least 2000 feet In the air all when Pearl tumbled overboard So examined the ground carefully stooping now an anthen and then to Inspect a leaf or something He did not wish to miss any portion portion portion por por- tion of oC his bride Presently the Ule young husband came to a clearing where he found some soma chips of wood Were Vere they bits of ot his darlings darling's head Or Or had someone cut down own a tree was unable to decide In Incase Incase Incase case they were bits of oC his darlings darling's head he placed them in his bas bas- ket Wandering further a rush of water water water wa wa- ter greeted his ears There before h him m was Old Faithful the well weB t u un b 6 J c L b ray Imp paused to admire the splendor of the huge column of water soaring I high into the all air Evidently it had been turned on for some time Because now its force slackened With mu much h spluttering spluttering spluttering it subsided and came down downto to earth And there Pearl stood before the astounded gaze of ot In falling from the plane the lovely girl girl landed directly on top of Old Faithful Just as it began to erupt She was vas carried high into the air all by the column of hot water Unable to climb down she had sat there quietly awaiting the time when she would be back on earth Dont stand there gaping like a blooming idiot said the daring girl Get me a glass pf pt Ice water Im I'm hot The following day and Pearl decided to view the splendors surrounding them Pearl was wass s sightly red from being in the hot water of the geyser but otherwise she felt in fine shape Both had recovered from their donkey ride and could sit where they pleased Well Vell walk a while and then well Avell sit down said The air all was fresh Cresh and invigorating Snow-capped Snow peaks loomed against the skyline Flowers bloomed bloom bloom- ed everywhere and the scent of oC pine thickets was all about themI them I feel as if I co could ld walk leak A milion million million mil- mil lion ion miles laughed p Pearl rl This Yellowstone stone Park certainly Is the berries Yes smiled Lets do walk a million miles I like Yellowstone Yellowstone Yellow Yellow- Yellowstone stone Park myself Silly boy laughed the lovely girl Irl kicking her husband on the shins Ill tell you what I will do with you ou though What asked Climb Pikes Pike's Peak You Iou took the words right out of my mouth So chatting and singing the two started to climb Pikes Pike's Peak Peal On and on they went The ascent w was as a sharp one the road twisting around aro nd curves and doubling back upon Itself The morning waned At noon they stopped and consumed the lunch which they had brought with them During the afternoon they climbed climb climb- ed steadily Dusk fell feU and still they were not in sight of ot the top of oC Pikes Pike's Peak Theres something wron wrong said to Pearl For hours they had seen nothing no no no- road no trees no scenery no anything They had been climbing so fast Cast this escaped escape their notice Now however as they paused to look took about them the realization of oC the r predicament slowly dawned They were thousands of oC feet above the earth standing alone in midair mid mid- air Theres something wrong wrong- about this repeated puzzled uzzle I II I wish the author was here sobbed Pearl Hes the guy who got us into this Jamb i Yes said And I know what the idiot has done I do too said Pearl who was nobody's nobody fool We Wc were In Yel- Yel I o Park He started ut us out outto outto to climb Pikes Pike's Peak But Pikes Pike's I Peak isn't In the park Its It's near Colorado Springs I And ju jut t then the chapter closed I leaving and Pearl standing thousands of feet above terra firma with no possible way of oC getting I down To Be Continued Y |