ON BOYHOOD DAYS 



potato with the story of which the reader is al- 

 ready familiar I determined at all hazards to 

 move to California. With the taking of the prac- 

 tical steps that followed that determination, in the 

 year 1875, a new epoch of my life began. 



I desired to deal with 

 the forces of life, and to 

 mold the plastic forms 

 of living organisms 

 rather than to spend 

 my life in classifying the 

 fixed and immutable phe- 

 nomena of dead organism. 



