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when we started homeward.  We went first to Orange Grove and then up
Hilton Av.  This road is awful during rainy weather, being so poorly constructed.  Many times I was in danger of losing my rubber shoes, they stuck
so tightly in the mud.  <s>All</s> Up to now we had been keeping ourselves
quite dry, notwithstanding the rain; but now we were getting the
full benefit of a strong north-east wind directly against us.  In a short
time our legs were soaked, and finally our feet although we had 
rubber-shoes on.  When we reached the terminus we were in a pretty soaked
condition, we were so wet that we found it more comfortable standing than sitting.
I reached home at 7 o'clock.

271
November 29, 1901.  We met at the Catonsville terminus at 8 A.M.  It was cloudy
and felt very much as if we would have snow; the weather report, however, stated
that it would be clear.  We started over the usual route to the ravine
but just as we were about to enter the woods, we decided to take the
Hilton Av. route; then, seeing the woods off to our left, we thought
that for once we might go in that direction.  So we crossed the
broad open field and entered the woods.  We found <s>them</s> the place very pretty
but it seemed rather thinly wooded.  There was a pretty brook covered with a thin coat of ice and here
and there were fine little camping places.  The ground was covered in
many places with fine large patches of moss.  We now took a south-eastern
        