You had indeed "something worth writing about"--not only the effect
of the impenitent mushroom, but the final and disastrous overthrow of
that ancient superstition, Sloots' infallibility as a mushroomer. As I
had expected to be at that dinner, I suppose I should think myself to
have had "a narrow escape." Still, I wish I could have taken my chance
with the rest of you.
How would you like three weeks of nipping cold weather, with a foot of
snow? That's what has been going on here. Say, tell Sloots that the
front footprints of a rabbit-track
[Illustration: Rabbit tracks]
are made by the animal's hind feet, straddling his forelegs. Could he
have learned that important fact in California, except by hearsay?
Observe (therefore) the superiority of this climate.
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