New Colorado and the Santa Fé trail . ese effete luxuries and demoralizingdainties; and the Commodore helped himself to a third portion of thegooseberry-pie. But, rejoined the Colonel, hast thou not read in the journal of theperiod, unjustly called venal, what words of wisdom have fallen from thelips of the Froudes and Macaulays ? Is it not written that, when peopledesire to imitate the ancients, they forget that the ways of our ancestorswere but the choice of Ilobson, and that if they lived in caves and teuts,it was but because co-operative building associations were the inheri-tance of their
New Colorado and the Santa Fé trail . ese effete luxuries and demoralizingdainties; and the Commodore helped himself to a third portion of thegooseberry-pie. But, rejoined the Colonel, hast thou not read in the journal of theperiod, unjustly called venal, what words of wisdom have fallen from thelips of the Froudes and Macaulays ? Is it not written that, when peopledesire to imitate the ancients, they forget that the ways of our ancestorswere but the choice of Ilobson, and that if they lived in caves and teuts,it was but because co-operative building associations were the inheri-tance of their posterity, and the brown - stone, high - stoop dwelling was adream f 124 Ni:\V COLORADO AND THE SANTA FE TRAIL. The Froiules and Macaulays be bio wed ! said the ;Jiivcr my tind)oi*s if I dont go camping—you bet! And he went—a comical figure, indeed—coercing tlie reluctant Mon-tezuma on the dusty road; and he camped ; and he returned, and said thatlie had a boss time. Only from contemporaneous history were vivid. EXPEDITION OF THE COMMODORE AND MONTEZUMA. accounts gathered of his first dinner, when he gazed pitifully through hisone eye-glass at the ants crawling over his plate, and sprung up in distresswhen a large yellow-jacket stung him on his close-cropped head; and ofhis last night, when he awoke from fitful slumber to see a steer with hishead through a hole in the tent, and a coyote snuffing under the flap, andto hear the howl of the dog ensconced at a safe distance. AVitli the approach of cold weather the camper sells his outfit as ad-vantageously as he can, and inscribes his name on the nearest hotel reg- OVER THE RANGE. 125 ister; and lie who lias chartered a wagon, and combined camp life withtravelling, emerges from the Ute Pass or one of the canons, and becomeslike nnto his fellow-men. Bnt for one thing how shall they, and even theresidents of Colorado, answ^er — the strewing of the whole country withthe great North American tin can ? From the
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