How many days has Hugh crawled? How far has he journeyed?
=5.= Swooped by. The dream of crawling and the act etc.
An appeal to the muscular sense.
Such dreams bespeak extreme weariness.
=8.= The butte, outstripped at eventide, now seemed etc.
The butte now becomes the measure of a progress infinitely slow,
a source of discouragement.
=13.= Whose hand-in-pocket saunter kept the pace.
Why “hand-in-pocket”?
=16.= What rest and plenty on the other side!
Hugh must have encouragement. The break in the prairie, the
crest of the divide, furnishes that. Explain the psychology. How
far is the divide from the Grand?
=20.= All day it seemed that distant Pisgah Height
Why “Pisgah”?
Define “lush.”