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hill to watch for them. After waitinij an hour we saw somethinii 

 coming. I thouglit it was a wild animal of the mountains, and 

 wanted to run. It appeared to have three heads, and it came 

 very slowly toward us. Soon we saw men slowly straggling 

 up the hill. We looked again at the animal and recognized 

 the ears ; the two additional heads belonged to two as fine deer 

 as one would wish to sec. They had been strapped to the burro, 

 and the pnov thing was quite exhausted from the heavy load and 

 long tramp. 



To say that the men were proud of their success would 

 but poorly express it. It surpassed any pride I had ever before 

 seen, and gave us all real pleasure. 



Dick gave a wonderful account of the flowers he had seen, 

 and had dug up quite a number for me, but none were perfect 

 except this cleome. It is quite common in this State, blossoming 

 in August and September, and sometimes later in the fall. "t 

 has two shades of color as I hax'c <»i\'en them. I have seen the 

 straw-color in Utah, but never in this State. It will grow in both 

 hio'h and low altitudes. 



As cx'cry thing must have an end, so must very soon this 

 trip. Dick, who had charge of every thing, including time, 

 informed us that W(; had but one day more. "Only one day 

 more?"we all exclaimed. It did not seem possible that we had 

 spent together nearly thirty days, the time had gone so quickly 

 and pleasantly. 



Now that we had but one day we thought of a hundred 



