Show I An Incident Three summers ago a party of which I was fortunate enough to be a member were camped about one hundred and ten miles from this city Our tents were pitched in such a place as to make us forget that any busy outside world existed at all Just beyond us ran the nois noisy yet melodious mountain stream on either side of our camp were seemingly endless forests of i pine and cedar and at our back rose a towering and majestic ic mountain which seemed to say to us II I I have been here many hundreds of years and have sheltered sheltered sheltered shelt shelt- ered other campers who were as insignificant insignificant and as absurdly conceited as you are When you have lived as long longas as asI I have then you may with some reason feel important Our efforts to lose ourselves from all other human beings was not successful however for just around the side of the mountain not more than a half mile away was a section-house section of a railroad We liked to call our camp the II Brook Ferm Perm and I think the women of the party were not sorry that we might at any time be in put connection with a drug store As usual the time the first few days was spent in getting settled and in getting getting getting get get- ting tanned During the second week we became venturesome some of the most reckless even daring to go so far faraway faraway faraway away from the guns and supplies as the section-house section where we ventured to walk the rails After tiring of this hazardous amusement we betook ourselves ourselves ourselves our our- selves to the more simple task of riding a hand All went well until we reached a down grade where the brakes and our combined efforts at screaming were of no avail The car dashed madly madlyon on and we continued our cries for help which so engaged our attention that allbut all allbut allbut but one of our number were entirely unaware that our car had reached level ground again until we happened to glance at her and notice her unsympathetic unsympathetic expression When we indignantly indig indig- indignantly nan inquired of her the cause of her inappropriate merriment in the presence of such imminent danger she loftily asked us II Where here is the danger danged and and- we were somewhat surprised on lookin looking g I around for the danger to find that it n had disappeared and that our car was wass s standing still very properly at the foot f of a slight hill hill up-hill grade As we came straggling into camp late latet t that afternoon I for one mentally re reL resolved re- re Itt 1 L solved never to take another ride upon a hand |