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ing fifty-five acres, was donated by the city. I was 

 stopped just west of here by a thunder shower and took 

 refuge under a tree. Pcm^and I had waited for storms 

 to pass over before, and made excellent rainy-day 

 friends. We rather enjoyed resting under some 

 shelter until the dust was well laid and the air freshened. 

 On our arrival at Camillus, myself and horse were liter- 

 ally covered with mud, the result of PauVs fright on the 

 approach of a train at a point where it was impossible 

 to leave the turnpike. We were trotting along quietly 

 and had just turned a bend in the road when the quick 

 ear of the horse caught the distant rumbling of 

 wheels. In an instant he was on the alert, and when 

 the swift express came round the curve, made a sudden 

 spring to the right, leaped a rail-fence, and landed in 

 a bog where the mud was two or three feet deep. I 

 managed to keep the saddle, but could not avoid the 

 mire in which we had haplessly fallen. 



Jordan House, 



Jordan, New York, 



June Fourth. 



By an hour's close application to my bespattered 

 garments, after reaching the Camillus House, I found 

 that I was ready to * turn in" for the night. Started 

 forward in the morning, the ride on this perfect June 

 day proving false the old saying that "Jordan is a 

 hard road to travel." This village was reached about 

 noon and I was quite pre})ared for the generous meal 

 which was placed before me. 



When the gnawings of hunger had been appeased I 



