THE MOUNTAIN TRAIL 



tramp, gratefully upon the hard 

 clean ground. Each person is lim- 

 ited to forty pounds of baggage, 

 which must include sleeping bag, 

 extra clothing, and all personal be- 

 longings. This forty pounds must 

 be packed in a dunnage bag three 

 feet long and eighteen inches in 

 diameter, with the owner's name 

 blazoned on the side in letters two 

 inches high. 



The cooking is done by Charlie 

 Tuck, a Chinaman of the type 

 that every true Californian loves 

 even as a Southerner loves his old 

 "Uncle 'Rastus." In the winter 

 lie cooks for a hotel in San Rafael, 

 but his Heathen Chinee soul is not 

 indifferent to the call of the wild, 

 for in his hotel contract he always 

 specifies that he is to have July 

 free to go with the Sierra Club. 

 He has two Japanese and his 

 nephew, Toy, as helpers and he 

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