eatness of your chieftainship. I have done.

his
"Crow X Foot,"
mark.

Standing on this hill and looking off into the sky, I and my horse seem
poised in mid air. It wouldn't be so hard to fly. Hitherto, I have
been following pleasure as something to be caught, and, of a sudden, I
have ridden into it. Don't you know me? I am Columbine pirouetting on
the white horse of the North.

Don't you know this is summer time on the hills where Nature has wealth
to spill like a mad-woman and spills it? On this mountain-top, there
is a wandering wind soft as a child's caress. I must make the best of
it and of the fierce radiance of the sunshine, for, sooner than we
bargain for, the Lord in his derision may send a cutting blizzard and
it will be cold, so cold.

As I ride homeward down the trail, I lift up my voice and hallo to the
sun for joy. You may call this mountain madness if you care to. Don't
you know that it matters not a finger's fillip what any one says about
a climber's mood or manner once she has reached the heights? Barbed
arrows fall off in this rarefied air, and this, I take it, is the great
reward of the climb.

There are other compensations on the heights. You may shut your eyes
and have a vision of the land that lies beneath you ... let us say a
vision of Mother Canada and her nine daughters, and of the part they
are destined to play in history. You may open your eyes again to
ponder how they will grapple with the problems of race assimilation; of
arbitration and war; of morals and politics; and of labour and capital.
You will conclude that nothing unfair can exist long in this land of
wide spaces, and that Canada is sure to think and act greatly. And
right here is a good place to repeat her prayer which it rests with
each of us to answer--

"Bring me men to match my mountains;
Bring me men to match my plains;
Men with empires in their purpose
And new eras in their brains."

When you are come down off the mountains there are other things to be
seen at Banff, like the golf-links, the aviary, and the museums, but
you will enjoy the water pastimes best, that is, if you are a Canadian
or an American. The European will be shocked to see the sexes bathing
together at this famous spa, for in Europe, it is their wish to bathe
privately even in the ocean.

The outdoor swimming pool is a sulphur water, and comes up from the hot
underworld. The pool is set in a splendi