We take our choice today between finding deer-brush and digging for amole, because the mock oranges aren't ripe enough to be nice and soapy yet.

I've got the deer-brush spotted, and we'll pass an amole before we go very far.

Look for a wavy blue-green leaf like a wide blade of grass and coming up like a lily." So together they went to the deer-brush and gathered a bunch of flowers that Linda bound together with some wiry desert grass and fastened to her belt.

It was not long before Donald spied an amole, and having found one, discovered many others growing near.

Then Linda led the way past thorns and brush, past impenetrable beds of cholla, until they reached a huge barrel cactus that she had located with the glasses.