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the route past the pump-house and went as far as the spring.  Here
we staid quite a while, the children enjoying themselves near 
the brook, and then returned by way of Hilton Av.

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May 10, 1904.  All-day trip from Ellicott City to Davis's and
return.  When I left home, at 7.30 A.M. it was raining, but it
ceased before I reached E. C. and by noon the sun was shining.
I rode to the E. C. terminus and then walked along the Jonestown
R'd.  My intention was to go to Dorsey's Run, but I passed the
road unintentionally so took the road leading through Mr.
Titworth's this brought me to the railroad a short distance
below D's.  On the road I met two drummer's.  They having
noticed me talking to a gentleman about a plant in his garden,
thought surely that I, too, was a drummer and was
selling flowers.  So the first thing I was asked after we had
saluted, was whether I had sold the man any flowers.  I soon
learned that one of the men a Mr. Robinson was travelling salesman
for a plant farm in New York.  I left them in Jonestown and
continued my trip alone.  I met Mr. T. at the corner of his lane and
the county road and, it was he <s>to</s> who took me over the route
from the road to the railroad.  He told me that they called
        