=2.= The rich-in-ponies rode, etc.
The first scene in the moving picture shows the contrast of rich
and poor that existed even in the most primitive society.
=3.= For much is light and little is a load etc.
What is meant? The sentence is a paradox.
=10.= Whining because the milk they got was thinned etc.
The squaws with their crying babies are the material of the
second scene, followed by the striplings.
=14.= How fair life is beyond the beckoning blue, etc.
“Distance lends enchantment.”
=15.= Cold-eyed the grandsires plodded, for they knew, etc.
Note contrasting words: striplings, grandsires; strutted,
plodded.
One group saw visions, the other was disillusioned.
=17.= In what lone land.
What is meant?
=20.= Stooped to the fancied burden of the race;
What is the “burden of the race”?
=25.= The lean cayuses toiled.
Cayuse, a broncho, originally one bred by the Cayuse Indians.
=27.= To see a world flow by on either side,
How does the world “flow by”?