. To California and back;. ather, but because their term of hoUday4ias ex-pired. Then come the tourists, and pale fugitivesfrom the buffets of Boreas, to wander happily overhillside and shore in a land unvexed by the tyrannyof the seasons. The most seductive of lands, and the most tena-cious in its hold upon you. You have done but little,and a day has fled; have idled, walked, ridden, saileda little, have seen two or three of the thousand thingsto be seen, and a week, a month, is gone. Youcould grieve that such golden burdenless hours shouldever go into the past, did they not flow from an in-e


. To California and back;. ather, but because their term of hoUday4ias ex-pired. Then come the tourists, and pale fugitivesfrom the buffets of Boreas, to wander happily overhillside and shore in a land unvexed by the tyrannyof the seasons. The most seductive of lands, and the most tena-cious in its hold upon you. You have done but little,and a day has fled; have idled, walked, ridden, saileda little, have seen two or three of the thousand thingsto be seen, and a week, a month, is gone. Youcould grieve that such golden burdenless hours shouldever go into the past, did they not flow from an in-exhaustible fount. For to be out all day in the care-less freedom of perfect weather; to ramble over ruinsof a former occupation; to wander throflgh gardensand orchards; to fish, to shoot, to gather flowersfrom the blossoming hillslopes; to explore a hundredfascinating retreats of mountain and shore; to loungeon the sands by the surf until the sun drops into thesea; all this is permitted by the Southern Californiawinter. 59.


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