My First Summer 



action succeeding each other in stormy 

 rhythm like winter and summer. Two 

 things they have that civilized toilers might 

 well envy them, pure air and pure water. 

 These go far to cover and cure the gross- 

 ness of their lives. Their food is mostly 

 good berries, pine nuts, clover, lily bulbs, 

 wild sheep, antelope, deer, grouse, sage hens, 

 and the larvae of ants, wasps, bees, and other 

 insects. 



August. 13.- - Day all sunshine, dawn and 

 evening purple, noon gold, no clouds, air 

 motionless. Mr. Delaney arrived with two 

 shepherds, one of them an Indian. On his 

 way up from the plains he left some provi- 

 sions at the Portuguese camp on Porcupine 

 Creek near our old Yosemite camp, and I set 

 out this morning with one of the pack ani- 

 mals to fetch them. Arrived at the Porcu- 

 pine camp at noon, and might have returned 

 to the Tuolumne late in the evening, but 

 concluded to stay over night with the Por- 

 tuguese shepherds at their pressing invita- 



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