On the Trail of Geronimo — page 171: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ON THE TRAIL OF GERONIMO. 159 CHAPTER XIX. AT THE HARLAND RANCH. It is a far different scene to which we now introduce the reader, and one that cannot fail to be viewed with greater pleasure, although even this is not without its shadow as well as sunshine. Only a day’s ride from the scene of the fruit- less battle in the mountains stood the ranch of Caleb Harland, to which reference has been made in the preceding chapters. Like all such struc- tures, the building was only a single story in height, with a hollow square in the center, upon which each room opened. ‘These included the sleeping rooms, the kitchen, the stable on the further side, and other apartments devoted to various uses. The theory no doubt is founded on fact that this arrangement secures better ventilation and more coolness than any other that can be adopted. In this low, wooden building, on a sunshiny day (C(O) nn) (C 6)(0)(6) SJ (C(O) mM