
          804.

of them.  It was now nearly noon, so we found a nice camp
near by, started a fire, prepared coffee and ate our dinner.  We
observed that whenever coffee was prepared from spring water, a
sediment always appeared when the water was boiled, but with
running water (from brooks or from the river) this never took place.
After dinner we started for home.  We went back to Dorsey's Run
and took th path leading up the hillside.  In a very short time
we were at the top and before long on the road to Ellicott City.
Mrs. Ackland's fine mansion was passed and presently we came to
Mr. Davis's florist establishment.  Mr. D. was patching his greenhouse.
<s>We learned</s> He told us that some boys had taken his wagon the night before
out of his place as <s>some</s> one of their Halloween pranks.  We told
him where he could find it.  He told us that Mr. A. was a 
young man about 32 and his wife was about 60, that the estate
contained 200 A [acres] and had been bought for $11,500, that the house
itself had cost $38,000 to build.  We had not very far to go and
we came in sight of Mrs. K.'s and Shipley's.  Just before reaching
K's we saw hung on a telegraph pole two wagon wheels, one on each
side of the cross bar.  We learned from a boy how the wheels were
gotten up.  One boy climbed the pole and got out on the cross-bar
        