A GEOLOGICAL PICNIC 



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and they were not so very small either, I came to- 

 the conclusion that the sooner I returned to a natural 

 and rational manner of living the better. 



Perhaps, for the sake of my appearance, it was well 

 I came to this decision, for I had begun to grow thin 

 from loss of sleep, and the sun had seen me so seldom, 

 that I looked as pale as a stalk of celery. I have 

 "roughed" it by the week, lived on all kinds of food, 



FOSSIL WHALE. 



camped in the snow, waded icy streams on the moun- 

 tains, and been without dry clothing for days together, 

 but I never felt so thoroughly worn out as after those 

 few weeks of dissipation. In order to live through 

 such a season one would need the constitution of a 

 mustang, and the digestion of an ostrich. 



Father had interested the people so much in geology, 

 that one fine day over two hundred went down with 

 him to Cheltenham to look at a fossil whale, which he 

 had discovered. 



