atch the detail to the theme that it best develops in the excerpt. Very near my mother's dwelling, along the edge of a road thickly bordered with wild sunflowers, some poles like these had been planted by white men. On the train, fair women, with tottering babies on each arm, stopped their haste and scrutinized the children of absent mothers. We had anticipated much pleasure from a ride on the iron horse, but the throngs of staring palefaces disturbed and troubled us. From the table we were taken along an upward incline of wooden boxes, which I learned afterward to call a stairway. My body trembled more from fear than from the snow I trod upon.