tains. The wind in the great firs and the roaring of
the mountain torrents were music in her ears. With the passing of
winter passed also the soul of Pauline Johnson to the happy hunting
grounds, there to find eternal freedom untrammeled by mortality. To
all who knew her she was the 'best beloved vagabond.' It was always
fine weather and good going on the trail of life when Pauline Johnson
blazed the way."
Contents
Preface
Author's Foreword
Biographical Notice
The Two Sisters
The Siwash Rock
The Recluse
The Lost Salmon Run
The Deep Waters
The Sea-Serpent
The Lost Island
Point Grey
The Tulameen Trail
The Grey Archway
Deadman's Island
A Squamish Legend of Napoleon
The Lure in Stanley Park
Deer Lake
A Royal Mohawk Chief
List of Illustrations
Frontispiece--Portrait
The Lions (The Two Sisters)
The Siwash Rock
Capilano Canyon
The Capilano River
Entrance to the Narrows
Kitsilano Beach
The Seven Sisters, Stanley Park
The Two Sisters
THE LIONS
You can see them as you look towards the north and the west, where the
dream hills swim into the sky amid their ever-drifting clouds of pearl
and grey. They catch the earliest hint of sunrise, they hold the last
color of sunset. Twin mountains they are, lifting their twin peaks
above the fairest city in all Canada, and known throughout the British
Empire as "The Lions of Vancouver." Sometimes the smoke of forest
fires blurs them until they gleam like opals in a purple atmosphere,
too beautiful for words to paint. Sometimes the slanting rains festoon
scarfs of mist about their crests, and the peaks fade into shadowy
outlines, melting, melting, forever melting into the distances. But
for most days in the year the sun circles the twin glories with a sweep
of gold. The moon washes them with a torrent of silver. Often-times,
when the city is shrouded in rain, the sun yellows their snows to a
deep orange, but through sun and shadow they stand immovable, smiling
westward above the waters of the restless Pacific, eastward above the
superb beauty of the Capilano Canyon. But the Indian tribes do not
know these peaks as "The Lions." Even the Chief, whose feet have so
recently wandered to the Happy Hunting Grounds, never heard the name
given them until I mentioned it to him one dreamy August day, as
together we followed the trail leading to the canyon. He seemed so
surprised at the n
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