In the Sierra 



speeches for the Union, mounted on a tall 



tool, when he was only six years old. 



It seems strange that visitors to Yosemite 

 should be so little influenced by its novel 



;randeur, as if their eyes were bandaged 

 ind their ears stopped. Most of those I saw 

 yesterday were looking down as if wholly 

 unconscious of anything going on about 

 them, while the sublime rocks were trem- 

 bling with the tones of the mighty chanting 

 congregation of waters gathered from all 

 the mountains round about, making music 

 that might draw angels out of heaven. 



r et respectable-looking, even wise-looking 

 people were fixing bits of worms on bent 

 pieces of wire to catch trout. Sport they 



illed it. Should church-goers try to pass 

 :he time fishing in baptismal fonts while 

 dull sermons were being preached, the 



>-called sport might not be so bad ; but 

 to play in the Yosemite temple, seek- 

 ing pleasure in the pain of fishes strug- 

 gling for their lives, while God himself is 

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