JIMMY’S TRIP TO CALIFORNIA 65 
in the pasture. So I hiked out for the roses and orange 
groves.” 
“Did you see many of them?”’ 
‘Mighty seldom,”’ said Jimmy, ‘“‘but I had the go- 
somewhere-fever and just had to dig out. I did not 
care to waste any money on traveling expenses so I 
only took a couple of dollars, but that’s a long way from 
being broke.”’ 
“How did you make out ’?”’ I asked. 
‘“‘Oh! first-rate, didn’t have a bit of trouble anywhere 
and caught on to a lot of experience. Took a ticket for 
Ogden, that cost eighty cents. There I bought five 
pounds of crackers and a pound of cheese, and to keep 
up with the eee eset business, I bought a plug of 
chewin’ tobacco.’ 
‘“Chewing tobacco! you don’t chew do you?”’ 
“You'll see why a little later,’’ replied Jimmy, look- 
ing wise. 
‘‘T filled a bottle with water and about nine that night 
I crawled into a side-door Pullman. Did you ever try 
to sleep in a moving empty freight car?’ inquired 
Jimmy. 
‘““Why, no,’’ I said, ‘‘that’s something I never tried.” 
‘Well, you don’t want to, it’s darned uncomfortable. 
The floor is hard and gets harder as you go along. 
You’re choked with dust and the wheels make a ter- 
rible racket, but it beats walking out of sight. I had 
nothing but my shoes for a‘pillow, but I got to sleep 
somehow.” Suddenly I was awakened by—‘‘Look 
north, quick. It’sacanvasback, coming this way. Get 
your gun ready and keep down.”’ 
I peeked through the tules, but it was several seconds 
before I made out a black flying speck, that quickly grew 
larger. It was a wonderful example of farsightedness. 
