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4 Keep out of the way, so as not to inflict my- self on anybody. I doubt whether I shall ever over come it. The fact is
Friend Muir I have been so unmercifully snubled through life, on account of my lameness that I feel it illegible to my underlined:
manhood to put up with it. And although lonesomeness is terrific on a sociable dis- position like mine, it is no disgrace
for me to retreat be- fore such unjust, and over- whelming odds. Go on, Dear friend, and May Heaven help you to describe the
wonders of your travels, as only John Muir can. Truly Yours, John Bagnall. 00819 1 356 Jessie Street San Francisco,
Cal. Oct. 20, 1878. Mr. Muir, Dear Sir and Friend: I was so glad to receive your letter, for I often think of you as
fairly underlined: reveling among the wonders beauties of nature How often it occurs to me, that I would like to be underlined:
able to be with you, even in the most humble capa- city - - For I should be in very Heaven, And feel underlined: new life
, by Nature given I feel almost as though I could drop the sympathetic tear, for those poor fellows who lay in the grave yards
of