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how to get out of a mortal coil without shuffling. Tell her that she will see glossy glacier polished domes of porphyritic
granite so full of life that she will touch them tenderly as if made of nervous shrinking flesh, she will see countless daisied
gentianed meadows beautiful beyond thought crystal lakes cascades falls innumerable spread everywhere like lace, confiding
russet sparrows on the highest summit peaks, crimson butterflies not found in all the world besides, she will see the Williamson
Spruce the most graceful tree creature of the Sierras, Casseope the blessed with her showers of purple arms, she will see
sunsets not purple golden belonging to Earth but of a transparent Spirit Kind that are windows of heaven. And tell her that
angels are abundant every- where. Above all tell her of the light, she will bathe in holy mountain Light. Is it her husband
that is so fond of hunting If so the Tuolumne Canon wh is an immense Yosemite over twenty miles long, is full of bears deer
that are never? disturbed to a bold hunter it will be paradise the grand- eur of its scenery in wh I mingled for the first
time last Nov' will make it interesting for all. - I am glad you call me to your house. I will come, but first I have two
or three years work to do here on glaciers Mtn' structure. I was about done for myself but Prof Runkle of Boston Mrs Carr
are making me study it into shapefor others, of course a great deal of Arithmetic is involved. I have a low opinion of mountain
books, they are like