One day, while my father, my mother, my brothers and myself were on a plumming and raspberrying excursion, my father made a remark that awoke a new superstition within my soul. My mother was driving our wagon, which was drawn by a yoke of gentle oxen, through the level of a beautiful vale, surrounded by lofty peaks, when my father, looking up, said to me in a mysterious kind of way, “My son, the Genus of the hills is looking down with wonder, for lo, behold, yonder is Madam Progress driving by in her ox-propeller car.” Ever after that I had a superstitious dread of this same Genus of the hills, and it was not until long years afterward, when the dry learning and colorless truths of youth had begun to dispel the flowery fancies, poetical fictions and glorious myths of my childhood, that I dared to explore or venture far into those same Genus-haunted hills.--_From May Day Dreams, published 1890._ FINIS. _The price of_ HAPPY DAYS _in cloth is $1, prepaid. Copies may be had by addressing The Reed Publishing Company, 1756 Champa Street, Denver, Colo. Remit by express or post-office money order, bank draft or registered letter._ * * * * * Transcriber’s note Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Hyphenation has been standardized. Spelling was retained as in the original except for the following changes: Page iv: “Premit, therefore, this” “Permit, therefore, this” Page ix: “felicitious, although” “felicitous, although” Page 48: “God’s debator and ye” “God’s debater and ye” Page 48: “Listern, ye doubting” “Listen, ye doubting” Page 69: “a cottag Manitou” “a cottage at Manitou” Page 87: “patriarchial trees of the” “patriarchal trees of the”