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     I don't care how hard an experience you have had; nor how little of the 

pleasant has been mingled with it; in three months your general impression 

of that trip will be good。         You will look back on the hard times with   a 

certain fondness of recollection。 

     I remember one trip I took in the early spring following a long drive 

on the Pine River。        It rained steadily for six days。          We were soaked to 

the skin all the time; ate standing up in the driving downpour; and slept 

wet。    So cold was it that each morning our blankets were so full of frost 

that   they   crackled   stiffly   when   we    turned   out。   Dispassionately   I      can 

appraise that as about the worst I ever got into。             Yet as an impression the 

Pine River trip seems to me a most enjoyable one。 

     So after you have been home for a little while the call begins to make 

itself heard。     At first it is very gentle。       But little by little a restlessness 

seizes hold of you。        You do not know exactly what is the matter: you are 

aware merely that your customary life has lost savor; that you are doing 

things   more  or   less perfunctorily;   and   that   you   are  a   little  more   irritable 

than your naturally evil disposition。 

     And gradually it is borne in on you exactly what is the matter。                 Then 

say you to yourself: 

     〃My  son;   you   know   better。     You   are   no   tenderfoot。    You   have   had 

too   long   an   experience   to   admit   of   any   glamour   of   indefiniteness   about 

this thing。     No use bluffing。       You know exactly how hard you will have 



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to   work;   and   how   much   tribulation   you   are   going   to   get   into;   and   how 

hungry   and   wet   and   cold   and   tired   and   generally   frazzled   out   you   are 

going     to  be。    You've     been    there   enough     times    so   it's  pretty  clearly 

impressed   on   you。       You   go   into   this   thing   with   your   eyes   open。   You 

know what you're in for。          You're pretty well off right here; and you'd be a 

fool to go。〃 

     〃That's right;〃 says yourself to you。            〃You're dead right about it; old 

man。     Do you know where we can get another pack…mule?〃 



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