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hill to watch for them. After waiting an hour we saw somethina 

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

 wanted to run. It ai)peared to have three heads, and it came 

 very slowly toward us. Soon we saw men slowlv strao-ojiivr 

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

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

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

 and the poor 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 flow^ers 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, blossomin<r 

 m August and September, and sometimes later in the fall. It 

 has two shades of color as I have given them. I have seen the 

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

 high and low altitudes. 



As every thing must have an end, so must very soon this 

 trip. Dick, who had charge of every thino-, includino- time 

 informed us that we had but one day more. "Only one day 

 moreP'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 



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