THE LONG TRAIL 



when he was dressing for dinner. A child 

 was not taken along on these "campings 

 out" until he was six or seven. They took 

 place three or four times a summer, and 

 continued until after the African expedi- 

 tion. By that time we were most of us 

 away at work, scattered far and wide. 



Father always threw himself into our 

 plays and romps when we were small as if 

 he were no older than ourselves, and with 

 all that he had seen and done and gone 

 through, there was never anyone with so 

 fresh and enthusiastic an attitude. His 

 wonderful versatility and his enormous 

 power of concentration and absorption 

 were unequaled. He could turn from the 

 consideration of the most grave problems 

 of state to romp with us children as if 

 there were not a worry in the world. 

 Equally could he bury himself in an ex- 

 haustive treatise on the History of the 

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