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‘Jo put a competent foremn in charge :1: the grain ranch. and toes: up our residence at Bow view.

(In one side of the ranch, dam three hundred feet or canyon and elite. like 9. long sinuous moving ribbon, the Ghost River flowed. boa-ins

on its breast in the fell the o: loss or the Kane Claire Imber campt. on another side, moving along with a stately grace. one of the loveliest rivers innthe world, the Blue Bow River flowed down from the hills . Wherever we looked were eungilt hills, and beyond them hills higher and yrt higher, and beyond. these higher bills, the gamed, marvelous outline at the snow crowned Inn: Rookies. silhouetted against 4‘ sky whose irredescent colors were like 0. sea. or opal and mother ct‘ pearl. This was my home.

I spent a great part pr my time in the saddle and o did my children. trhey could ride like "little devils", to use an expression otcne or the cowpmchers. 2 lhad five saddle horses of nw own. Daisy, Lady Bug,

Ethel. filter Heels and Viper. Daisy was thoroughbred; ladybug guzuilzshn ¢p&znsIxhnI, was the tool of e zeercheron more and a racing films sire. Silver Heels was an Indian bronco and Viper was a demon. He threw me

more times than I like to record. fig was a gentle, lovely creature .. the kind. of sninnl my husband liked me to ride --safe, eure£ooted..fi€:l:II:lx

I had named her otter Ethel Kelley, author or "wing". one or my new York A friends. came no echoes of the hurrying dance life of the deed years? no nothing stir within. luring and calling me back? lbw up one

explain this thing? Even when mllopping over the hills _nd. across the wide spreading pastures and into woods where the long sea:-ohligntn or the sun pumopk through to the lugs: flowering carpet or every conceivable color; even

when pionicing and holidaying with friends ---neighboring ranolars. or

people tram Calgary --no matter where I was. and nearly all of the time, dnri

that first year.