Transcriber's Note:
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FRANK'S RANCHE;
OR,
MY HOLIDAY IN THE ROCKIES.
FRANK'S RANCHE, FROM A SKETCH BY HIMSELF.
FRANK'S RANCHE
 
 OR
 
 MY HOLIDAY IN THE ROCKIES
 
 BEING A CONTRIBUTION TO THE INQUIRY INTO WHAT WE ARE TO DO WITH OUR BOYS
BY THE AUTHOR OF
"AN AMATEUR ANGLER'S DAYS IN DOVEDALE"
"To thy bent mind some relaxation give,
And steal one day out of thy life, to live!"
Cowley
Second Edition.
LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET
1886
(All rights reserved)
"Oh! happy farmers! overblest I wis,
If they could only realise their bliss!
For whom the earth, away from jingling strife,
In just abundance sheds the gifts of life."
Virgil's Georgics.
(R. D. Blackmore's Translation.)
 DEDICATORY LETTER.
My dear Friend M.,
I cannot but dedicate this little volumeto you who have been my pleasant travellingcompanion for many thousandsof miles in the great western world. Butfor you I should probably never haveundertaken such a journey; and for how many acts ofthoughtful kindness by the way am I not indebted toyou? Can I forget that you always insisted on my takingthe best bunk in the cabin, the best seat in stage-coaches,the best room in hotels, the best bed in sleeping cars?Can I forget that it was your warmhearted friendshipfor Frank which induced you to "rough it"with me in his little log shanty? And ought I notgratefully to remember the inexhaustible resources oftha                        
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