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2. now, every needle sun thrilled shining responding tunefully to the azure wind When I left I was in a dreamy ex hausted
daze, Yet from mere habit or instinct I tried to observe study. From the car window I watched the gradual transitions from
muddy water, spongy tule, marsh level field as we shot up the San Jose Valley, marked as best I could the forms of the stream
canons as they opened to the plain, the outlines of the undulating hillocks headlands between Interest increased at every
mile until it seemed un bearable to be thrust so flyingly onward even towards the blessed Sierras. I will study them yet.
free from time wheels, When we turned suddenly dashed into the narrow mouth of the Liver more Pass I was looking out of the
right side of the car. The window was closed an account of the cinders smoke from the locomotive All at once my eyes clasped
a big hard 3. rock not a hundred yds away, every line of wh is as strictly outspokenly glacial as any of the most alphabetic
of the high young Sierra, that one sure glacial word thrilled overjoyed me more than you will ever believe Town smokes shadows
had not dimmed my vision for I had passed this glacial rock twice before without reading its meaning. As we proceeded the
general glacial ness of the range became more more apparent until we reached Plea illegible town where once there was a grand
illegible illegible glace. Here the red sun went down in a cloudless glow I leaned back happy weary possessed with a lifeful
of noble problems At Lathrop we suppered changed cars The last of the daylight had long laded I sauntered away from the
din while the baggage was being transferred The Young moan hurry like a sickle