In the Sierra 



above : " This man, you know, came down 

 out of these huge, trackless mountains, you 

 know, to find his friend Professor Butler 

 here, the very day he arrived ; and how did 

 he know he was here ? He just felt him, he 

 says. This is the queerest case of Scotch far- 

 sightedness I ever heard of," etc., etc. While 

 my friend quoted Shakespeare : "'More 

 things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than 

 are dreamt of in your philosophy," "As the 

 sun, ere he has risen, sometimes paints his 

 image in the firmament, e'en so the shadows 

 of events precede the events, and in to-day 

 already walks to-morrow.' 



Had a long conversation, after dinner, 

 over Madison days. The Professor wants 

 me to promise to go with him, sometime, 

 on a camping trip in the Hawaiian Islands, 

 while I tried to get him to go back with 

 me to camp in the high Sierra. But he 

 says, " Not now." He must not leave the 

 General ; and I was surprised to learn they 

 are to leave the valley to-morrow or next 



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