In the Sierra 



joy enlivening the massy sublimity of the 

 mountains like the laugh of a child. Thank 

 p ou, thank you all three for your quicken- 

 ing company. Heaven guide every wing and 

 leg. Good-night, friends three, good-night. 

 July 22. A fine specimen of the black- 

 died deer went bounding past camp this 

 torning. A buck with wide spread of 

 intlers, showing admirable vigor and grace. 

 r onderful the beauty, strength, and grace- 

 ful movements of animals in wildernesses, 

 :ared for by Nature only, when our experi- 

 ence with domestic animals would lead us 

 to fear that all the so-called neglected wild 

 >easts would degenerate. Yet the upshot 

 >f Nature's method of breeding and teach- 

 ig seems to lead to excellence of every 

 >rt. Deer, like all wild animals, are as clean 

 plants. The beauties of their gestures and 

 ittitudes, alert or in repose, surprise yet more 

 :han their bounding exuberant strength, 

 ivery movement and posture is graceful, 

 the very poetry of manners and motion. 



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