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 second one, when he looked out, said "Oh!" in exactly the same way, and then was silent as was his brother, and they crouched and gazed down four thousand feet of rugged, vivid canyon wall, and at the wheeling, darting white birds with two long, long white feathers trailing far behind, and they heard the thin, clear, piercingly sweet call come threading up to them; and they gazed at the violet-purple sea and the tangle of white where it broke and tore at the foot of the next ragged point.

They gazed, panting softly and trying to swell their little hearts big enough to take in the marvel of it all; but knowing that it was useless, for they were only two wee little Menehunes, only as tall as your hand set upon edge with the thumb upright.

And then, as they gazed, a nearby sound came to them, probably the sound which had first awakened them, and they peered around the edge of their cleft; and there, within a few feet of their rock, right on the edge of the wonderful canyon, sat two women. They were lovely wo-