CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY No. 17 5 
him and Charley walk the twenty miles. When they got to town they went 
direct to the editor of the daily paper, the San Diego Union, and made out 
quite a weird story of my performance as a bad man. The editor made quite 
a half column of screed that was good reading. So when it came out the 
next morning I at once sat down and wrote the facts of the case and re- 
quested the editor to print it ,which he did. Then the oily Parry came to 
me and wanted me to pay my bill for the trip. I told him to bring it in 
and I would settle it as we had agreed. But when the bill came it con- 
tained among other items a charge of $10 for the ruined shotgun, and other 
extras. I promptly refused to pay any of them, but agreed to pay just what 
we had agreed on before the trip was made. So I gave him a check for 
the amount and told him to sue for the rest. Parry tried to scare me into 
paying extra by saying that they would arrest me for pulling a gun on 
them, and would give me other trouble. I told him to start the ball a ee 
at once and I would stay an extra day to enable them to prosecute m e- 
ing something of a lawyer I knew they could do nothing, and that hey were 
only bluffing and it turned out that way. 
Parry remained in southern California till he wore out his welcome, 
for he was always sponging on people so long as they would permit it. His 
wife was an excellent lady. 
That trip with Parry and me convinced Charley Orcutt that he was a 
great botanist, and he began to swell around like a toad. Later on he took 
several trips into Mexico and collected several new species. His chief dif- 
other botanists. He was crooked financially, and impossible to get along 
with, and yet he had considerable talent, but the petting he received from 
Cleveland and others turned his head, and he never amounted to anything. 
On our way back to San Diego we had a long hill to climb, and Parry 
said he would walk and cut across and meet us on the top. I also walked 
to relieve the team of my weight, and on going up the hill I found eke 
unilateralis a new species. When we reached the top Parry was not to be 
seen, red we had left him behind. So I stopped the team and went 
over to a bat near by where a young Mexican woman was standing, and 
asked her in my best English if she had seen an old man going along the 
e smiled sweetly and said “Quien sabe.” Then I tried to manu- 
facture some pigeon English, and conjured up all the Latin I could think 
of in various enagreige to make her understand what I meant. But the 
was always the same. This was my first experience trying to talk 
to someone a ada not talk English. Finally I had to resort to panto- 
mime to get her to understand. At this juncture Parry showed up. I de- 
cided right there that I never would be caught in such a fix again. So I 
got a Spanish dictionary and reader and began to learn Spanish. Two 
years afterwards I thought I had become rather proficient, and could if 
conditions warranted — he out of Latin what I lacked so that I could 
talk to Mexicans. I was at El Paso, Texas, and it was hot and dry and 
I was hungry for a Aisa for there were piles of them for sale along 
