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rarity, and the desert traveller meets them seldom. 

 How true it is that happiness consists in trifles. 

 Water, a little bag of barley, a few stars, a loaf and 

 cheese, a tomato, and a cool night coming, that was 

 about all: yet even the mosquitoes could not dis- 

 turb my tranquillity that long evening on Coyote 

 Creek. 



