On getting into Nebraska, he came to a place where there were two roads.

One went by a river, and the other went over the hill.

The man saw that the travel went over the hill, but thought he'd take the river road.

He didn't know that there was a quicksand across it, and that people couldn't use it in spring and summer.

There used to be a sign board to tell strangers about it, but it had been taken away.