for every human ill, and waiting for their hair to 

 grow long. I hope they prepared some helpful, 

 or at least harmless prescriptions, for, ere this, 

 they have become picturesque, and I fear pros- 

 perous, medicine-men on some populous street- 

 corner. One day I had dinner on the summit of 

 Mt. Lincoln, fourteen thousand feet above the 

 ocean. I ate with some miners who were digging 

 out their fortune ; and was " the only caller in 

 five months." 



But I was not always a welcome guest. At 

 one of the big mining-camps I stopped for mail 

 and to rest for a day or so. I was all " rags and 

 tags," and had several broken strata of geology 

 and charcoal on my face in addition. Before I 

 had got well into the town, from all quarters 

 came dogs, each of which seemed determined to 

 make it necessary for me to buy some clothes. 

 As I had already determined to do this, I kept 

 the dogs at bay for a time, and then sought 

 refuge in a first-class hotel ; from this the porter, 

 stimulated by an excited order from the clerk, 

 promptly and literally kicked me out! 



In the robings of winter how different the 



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