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tia), the shyest and one of the most engaging of mam- 

 mals. Here grew the willow with its fragrant flowers, 

 male and female, yellow and gray, like fuzzy bees; the 

 elder was in abundant flower, the lungwort, and the very 

 fragrant yellow columbine, a superb flower. Whether 

 the note of a cony greeted our ear we were not quite 

 certain, but on our way back we caught a glimpse of him 

 as he uttered his derisive cry, a bleat so absurdly like 

 that of a lamb that the first time that I heard it, many 

 years ago, while hunting mountain sheep in Colorado, I 

 nearly jumped out of my skin with astonishment when 

 this little beast uttered his cry almost beneath my feet. 



A creeping kalmia only a couple of inches high was 

 found, and Labrador tea. A certain sedge with dark 

 purplish-brown flowers abounded, a "grass" long to be 

 remembered, since in extremity once it furnished forth 

 a breakfast to my need, and convinced me that if 

 Nebuchadnezzar during the time that he derived his sus- 

 tenance from this sort of food only indulged in the right 

 kind of exercise, preferably to scale the peaks of the 

 Kingdom of Babylon, which were all around his summer 

 palaces, and if he were unstinted in his devotion to this 

 sort of recreation, his peculiar food may have been 

 chosen because he liked it and because it agreed with 

 him. And as for being ''wet with the dew of heaven," — 

 that is one of the most delightful things in the world; 

 to "eat grass like oxen," and to be "wet with the dew of 

 heaven," lie well within the capacity of any Sierran. 

 Nebuchadnezzar has had a lot of notoriety for this, far 

 beyond his deserts. "All flesh is grass," saith the wise 

 man, and if he happens to be good and hungry and of 

 sound digestion, he instinctively pursues that course by 

 which the one is most expeditiously transformed into 

 the other. 



Just under eleven thousand feet lies a good-sized lake, 

 now half-full of ice. Above us opened a grand view of 

 the summit of Brewer. A little sulphur-colored plant 

 grew on these rocks, one of the Compositce. It was 



