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*Just as we left the swamp we met a man who gave us a new name
for holly-hollow, Mr. W. had a piece in his hand when our new friend called it hollow,
hollow, Mr. W. said holly but he persisted in calling it hollow.

From L. we proceeded at once to Sulphur Sp. Road and stopped
at the swamp, close to Washington R'd.  We examined Lygodium
palmatum but found none in fruit.  Botrychium ternatum and
its variety obliquum however we found and a few specimens taken.
After this short stop we continued our trip* out Sulphur Sp. Road
only stopping a little while at the hotel where we ate a light
lunch.  The old kitchen has been torn down and entirely removed.
I must not forget, however, we also stopped a few minutes and
talked with the watchman at the railroad crossing at Arbutus.
He is an original character and it always pays to have a
chat with him.  To-day our conversation drifted to people dying.
Mr. W.  said, "Well Mr. Hahn & his wife are now dead too,"
and then also that Mr. H. had looked so well, no one would have
thought that he was sick, but he said, "He has been sick
a long time.  Do you remember the time he went to Europe?  
Well, he was sick then" and then Mr. W. added, "I don't see
why people want to go to Europe, because that doesn't do them
a bit of good, people die there too."  "Yes" our watchman says,
he, too, had heard of people who had friends in Europe and that they
had died.  "Why, yes" Mr. W. added "even Bismarcks died".
        