WATER TRAILS OF THE CERISO 



hobo of the hills in localities where not 

 even an Indian would look for it. 



It is the opinion of many wise and busy 

 people that the hill-folk pass the ten-month 

 interval between the end and renewal of 

 winter rains, with no drink ; but your true 

 idler, with days and nights to spend beside 

 the water trails, will not subscribe to it. 

 The trails begin, as I said, very far back in 

 the Ceriso, faintly, and converge in one 

 span broad, white, hard-trodden way in the 

 gully of the spring. And why trails if 

 there are no travelers in that direction ? 



I have yet to find the land not scarred 

 by the thin, far roadways of rabbits and 

 what not of furry folks that run in them. 

 Venture to look for some seldom-touched 

 water-hole, and so long as the trails run 

 with your general direction make sure you 

 are right, but if they begin to cross yours 

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