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stumps and rotting timber ; the forest had been lumbered and 

 no effort made to burn refuse. It was very depressing all the 

 way to Shaver Lake. At the lumber company's store we got a 

 few luxuries and then went on. The following day brought us 

 to the Stevenson Creek station of the San Joaquin and East- 

 ern, a short distance from where we started. We were not yet 

 out of food, though we had been out just fifteen days from 

 Andrews' Camp. With a little care, we could have gone seven- 

 teen or eighteen days. 



NOW the sun has come out after the storm, how bright, how 

 full of freshness and tender promise and fragrance is the 

 new world ! The woods putting forth new leaves ; it is a mem- 

 orable season. So hopeful ! These young leaves have the beau- 

 ty of flowers . . . After a storm at this season, the sun comes 

 out and lights up the tender expanding leaves, and all nature is 

 full of light and fragrance, and the birds sing without ceasing, 

 and the earth is a fairyland. Thoreau's Journal 



