7. No one shall be required to speak grammatically on this trip.—_F. E.
W._
All of which were unanimously adopted except the one about “counting
two,” which evoked a loud dissent.
The first day we rode seventy-two miles, stopping at Clark’s hospitable
caravansary, and kindly permitting sweet sleep to knit up the raveled
sleeve of care. Decoration Day (May 30th) came next, and with patriotic
intent we had made out a program, intending to “celebrate” in the chapel
built for Dr. Vincent when he conducted a miniature “Chautauqua Assembly”
in the Yosemite a few years since. But when, after a mountain ride of
half a day, surrounded by inclined planes of evergreens, each of which
would have been a world’s wonder, at the East, with superb curves in the
road evermore opening fresh vistas of illimitable height, verdure and
beauty, we rounded