Rod and gun . d ninety-fourmiles from Yale, a relic of the gold ex-citement. I stayed allafternoon a tClinton on ac-count cf theheat. At halfpast six it wason afterleaving Clintonthe road beginsto climb out ofthe valley, inone continuoushill for threemiles. By thetime I reachedthe summit itwasgettingduskand I speededup, having a splendid road for five miles. Then Icame on the dust and it demanded verypersistently that 1 slacken speed and pro-ceed in a slow and dignified manner. Iobserved however, that it had no objec-tion to my waltzing from one side to theother. Then a hill temp
Rod and gun . d ninety-fourmiles from Yale, a relic of the gold ex-citement. I stayed allafternoon a tClinton on ac-count cf theheat. At halfpast six it wason afterleaving Clintonthe road beginsto climb out ofthe valley, inone continuoushill for threemiles. By thetime I reachedthe summit itwasgettingduskand I speededup, having a splendid road for five miles. Then Icame on the dust and it demanded verypersistently that 1 slacken speed and pro-ceed in a slow and dignified manner. Iobserved however, that it had no objec-tion to my waltzing from one side to theother. Then a hill tempted me and awayI went. At the bottom of this hill was astone, large and sharp, I have reasonto believe. The stone is still there unlesssomeone heavier than myself has madeits acquaintance. A half hours plowingthrough the dust brought me to the fifty-nine Mile House. The next morning came all too quickfor me, but 1 managed to get off at nineoclock. The road was rough and cut upwith huge ruts making wheeling the. INDIAN GRAVES AT GRAVE-VARD LAKE reverse of pleasant. Then I met my oldfriend, the dust, and stayed with him foran hour. Passing the Seventy MileHouse I went on to the Seventy-four MileHouse for lunch. The heat was intensebut I wanted to make forty miles beforenight came. The next thirty miles layover the hills. The road was not excep-tionally hilly but very rough. I passed the Eighty-three Mile Houseat three p. m. and started on over thesummit. On the summit the road wasfair and I made fairly good time for fifteenmiles. Then there is a three mile dropinto the Bridge Creek Valley. On thishill I made exceptionally good time butnot owing to any effort on my part. ^ifHere I foundone of the mostdismal lookingplaces for aroadhouse viz:the one hun-d r e d Mile House. I stop-ped for supperand that com-pleted my reso-lution to huntanother ho passingover a smallrange to getout of the val-ley I encounter-ed another longsteep hill. Be-yond this thecountry was more open an
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