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Image from page 208 of “Roy and Ray in Mexico” (1907)
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Title: Roy and Ray in Mexico
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Plummer, Mary Wright, 1856-1916
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Publisher: New York, H. Holt
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li was full ofset pieces of flowers, chiefly daisies, as well as ofbouquets from the peoples gardens, and all thelamps were trimmed with coloured paper like thestreets outside. As they left their own boat and walked throughthe village to the smaller craft in which they hadto continue their trip, they saw a curious sight. Atthe back of one of the adobe huts, under an arbor,they saw one countryman pulling anothers tooth;and as they came back past the same place, thewhilom dentist was now cutting the hair of a littleboy whose father held him fast in the chair, as hedid not much like the operation. He can turn his hand to most anything, canthe! said Roy. Well, said Ray, dont you remember oldDr. Walling told us the doctors and surgeons allused to be barbers, too. I suppose these peoplehavent divided the businesses yet. A short walk brought them to another andsmaller canal, in which two smaller boats of thesame pattern were waiting. They stepped intoone, and their boatman began to pole them
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v^ THE VIGA 175 through one narrow canal after another, turningthe corners and weaving his way among the lily-pads with great skill. The gardens are great square patches ofground which, many years ago, floated on the sur-face of the water; but the planting of willows andother plants with spreading and tenacious rootshas at last anchored the gardens and only thecanals around them are left. Tall, slim poplarand willow trees border the gardens, and in be-tween, poppies and hollyhocks and morning-glories provide an edge of colour which is verypretty. Roy found that by reaching out he couldoccasionally pull up a radish, or an onion, or a bitof lettuce, and he made up quite a salad, takingits ingredients one by one instead of together.The boatman picked some of the long-stemmedwater-lilies and made chains for the children toput around their necks, and a bouquet of thepurple lilies growing in clusters, for Mrs.Stevens. The sky was very blue, the gardens very pretty,and the motion of the boat
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Image from page 83 of “Campbell’s new revised third edition complete guide and descriptive book of the Yellowstone Park” (1916)
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Title: Campbell’s new revised third edition complete guide and descriptive book of the Yellowstone Park
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Campbell, Reau
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Publisher: Chicago : H.E. Klamer
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are entering Wonderland, where you must besure to have your driver point out to you the most remarkable geyser in theworld, for it throws up hot blocks of ice, and on your fourth days coachingfrom Mammoth Hot Springs you will have a beautiful ride across HaydenValley, crossing Alum Creek. You know alum will pucker and shrink any-thing which comes in contact with it. A long time ago a man came along 81 there driving four very large horses with a big wagon and he forded this creek;when he came out on the opposite side he found the alum water had shrunkenhis outfit to four Shetland ponies and a basket phaeton. A lady from Chicagoheard of this wonderful water and immediately went there wearing numbereight shoes, bathed her feet twice and went away wearing number ones.In telling a party about it there happened to be a Chicago lady in the partywho sarcastically advised the narrator to go and soak his head in that creek.Jim Bridger told of mountain streams having their source in the snow of
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BRIDGE OVER THE YELLOWSTONE, GRAND CANON. the summit and ran down so fast that the water became hot from friction bythe time it reached the foot of the mountain. As a matter of fact, the stonesin the bed of the Yellowstone River below the Great Falls, where the coldwater runs very rapidly, are hot, so hot that one can hardly bear the contactwith the hand. Slim, a driver (I dont know his other name, but he was a jolly goodfellow), told me that when he came to the Park that Beaver Lake was justcrowded full of beavers, but they took so many of them to Washington thatthere wasnt hardly any left now. 82 At the risk of being caught in some sort of a joke, I just naturally inquiredwhy they should want to send beavers to Washington. Oh, Shm said,they wanted em for the theological garden. I had not thought of such acontingency, and at first I was inclined to be wroth at the idea of removingany animals from the Park, but Slims explanation tended to soothe mysomewhat enraged feelings. Larry Matt
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Image from page 557 of “Outing” (1885)
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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: [New York : Outing Pub. Co.]
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oat so constructed offers less resist-ance to the heavy seas whose cannon-like shocks are often terrifying. The Cambria, the jauntiest and fast-est, of all the Salt Lake boats, is builtafter the English model of catamaranand is the first of its kind that wasbuilt in America. She has twenty feetwater line, ten feet beam and five feetspace between the two slim, pointedboats which form her divided hull.Having no cockpit or cabin, the deckfrom stem to stern is unbroken, savefor the mast and tiller. Her sail planis mainsail and fore-staysail, and whennot overloaded, she draws less than twofeet of water. By middle June and on through Julyand August, the lake is at its best. Afine breeze is usually to be counted onin the early morning, and late in theafternoon it blows up lively again, mak-ing a sail at sunset a delight. Three mountain chains cross the lakebed, and are easily traceable by the dis-tinct groups of islands that mark theircourse. Antelope and Fremont are in 548 OUTING FOR MARCH.
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THE CURVING BAY OF STANSBURY. a line with Promontory Point, whichshows the northward connection of theOquirrhs ; the Aqui peaks leave Stans-bury, Egg, Carrington and Hat Islandsin their wake, and farther to the west,—dimly outlined in the ineffable blendingof sea and horizon, the Desert Rangelifts a trio of bold heads, Strongs Knob,Gunnison and Dolphin. Of all these islands, Antelope is thebest known and the most frequentlytouched upon by the several pleasurecrafts afloat on the lake ; although acommon method of direct communi-cation is by a clumsy, scow-shaped cattle-boat, sloop rigged with mainsail and jib,and steered by an oddly placed wheelon the forecastle deck. By the use ofsignal fires messages are exchanged be-tween the Crusoe herdsmen in chargeof the cattle on the island and the boatowners on shore, a distance of twentymiles. Two sage-brush fires on the westface of Ensign Peak telegraph this mes-sage to the island : Bring over a load of cattle.Within twenty-four hours, if t
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