Frank's ranche, or, My holiday in the Rockies : being a contribution to the inquiry into what we are to do with our boys . led. I was told long before I left Englandby warmhearted friends in New York that ifI ever visited that city their utmost should bedone * to impair my digestion ! They didtheir best, and I hereby declare my gratitudeto them for their generous intentions. Sufficeit to say that I eventually got away fromthem with no more serious injury than couldbe cured by a few days tossing and roUing onthe broad Atlantic. Our passage was even rougher and moretrying on the whole than the o
Frank's ranche, or, My holiday in the Rockies : being a contribution to the inquiry into what we are to do with our boys . led. I was told long before I left Englandby warmhearted friends in New York that ifI ever visited that city their utmost should bedone * to impair my digestion ! They didtheir best, and I hereby declare my gratitudeto them for their generous intentions. Sufficeit to say that I eventually got away fromthem with no more serious injury than couldbe cured by a few days tossing and roUing onthe broad Atlantic. Our passage was even rougher and moretrying on the whole than the outward passagehad been, but we did not mind that; for werewe not homeward bound ? I have now been at home about three weeks,aad I am already beginning to doubt whetherit is an actual fact that such a stay-at-homeold fixture as I have always been, could,within the last four months, have travelledsomething like fourteen thousand miles by 204 MV HO LI DA V IN THE ROCKIES. land and sea ! I am inclined to regard thatgreat land of my pilgrimage as altogether The land of vision ; it would seemA still, an everlasting dream !. APPENDIX. ^::sx^^o^5gc:^s:^<g»
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