With Crawford in Mexico [pp. 78-83]

78 WUith Crazcford ioi Mexico. [Ju
the umber tree trunks with the slow peace up from the dark, silent woods below t
'that scatters care. The stars and the bur- clear, plaintive, mysterious notes, "Poo
nished moon are not so much a part of the will, poo' will, poo' whip, poo' whip, p0
forest night, but glitter far away behind the will."
screening tree-tops, taking no solemnity from My ears heard it for the first time, but i
the inner chamber of the woods. The stantly my years had vanished, and I was
ca np-fire, with the white smoke passing away child in a rude Californian schoolhous
with the wind, is the star of the pine and reading from my thumbed reader the neve
cedar glades to-be-forgotten tale of poor Will, the truan
There is one thing up there in the woods And then it came again-so sweet, so pur
that lies like a jewel on the memory. One so welcome to the ears that had alwa
night the camp-fire had gone out, and slum- longed to hear it-not an unvarying con
ber, which comes so easily and so early mand, but a commiseration, rating in equ
there, had claimed its most willing votaries. sympathy both objects of mention-" P
The night was motionless, the horses teth- whip, poo' whip, poo' will."
ered in the brushcraunched their hay quietly, If ever you go there, stay by night in t
the frogs and crickets called faintly and woods, till the shymidnightwanderer repea
dreamily. A voice said: "Hush-did you to you the pathetic song-burden of his e
hear it?" istence.
I listened, and in a moment there came Lillian H. Shuey.
WITH CRAWFORD IN MEXICO.
I READ with much interest the account of been following the hostiles from the nort
the pursuit of Geronimo in the April number and were put on the cars, in the Rio Grand
of the OVERLAND, as it was my fortune to valley, to endeavor to head them off to th
accompany the command of Captain Emmet west of Deming, before they got to the ra
Crawford, who continued the pursuit of this road. We were soon loaded and off, an
band into the Sierra Madre Mountains of after dark disembarked at Separ, havin
Mexico. heard nothing from the hostiles since leavin
After a hard chase after a portion of the Deming.
hostiles as far as Lake Palomas, in Mexico, The darkness was intense, and unloadin
the command to which I belonged was or- the animals on an open freight platform d
dered to go to Deming and report to Cap- ficult in the extreme. The cries of th
us with a trai of stc crs, all ready to pul _:,: effors ofthe me to fidter belo_ng-.....................