JIMVILLE 



come after you. And at Jimville they 

 understand the language of the hills. 



Jimville does not know a great deal about 

 the crust of the earth, it prefers a " hunch." 

 That is an intimation from the gods that 

 if you go over a brown back of the hills, by 

 a dripping spring, up Coso way, you will 

 find what is worth while. I have never 

 heard that the failure of any particular 

 hunch disproved the principle. Somehow 

 the rawness of the land favors the sense 

 of personal relation to the supernatural. 

 There is not much intervention of crops, 

 cities, clothes, and manners between you 

 and the organizing forces to cut off com- 

 munication. All this begets in Jimville a 

 state that passes explanation unless you will 

 accept an explanation that passes belief. 

 Along with killing and drunkenness, covet- 

 ing of women, charity, simplicity, there is 

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