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/•VV mong the best days that I have had outdoors 

 \VV are the two hundred and fifty-seven that 

 were spent as a guide on Long's Peak. One day 

 was required from the starting-place near my 

 cabin for each round trip to the summit of the 

 peak. Something of interest occurred to enliven 

 each one of these climbs: a storm, an accident, 

 the wit of some one or the enthusiasm of all the 

 climbers. But the climb I remember with great- 

 est satisfaction is the one on which I guided 

 Harriet Peters, an eight-year-old girl, to the 

 top. 



It was a cold morning when we started for the 

 top, but it was this day or wait until next season, 

 for Harriet was to start for her Southern home 

 in a day or two and could not wait for a more 

 favorable morning. Harriet had spent the two 

 preceding summers near my cabin, and around 

 it had played with the chipmunks and ridden the 

 burros, and she had made a few climbs with me 



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