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[Illustration: ONE OF THE LATE-SUMMER FEEDING-GROUNDS OF THE OUZEL.]
The Ouzel is usually found singly; rarely in pairs, excepting during
the breeding season, and _very_ rarely in threes or fours. I once
observed three thus spending a winter morning in company, upon a small
glacier lake, on the Upper Merced, about 750... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
[Illustration: OUZEL ENTERING A WHITE CURRENT.]
The Ouzel alone of all birds dares to enter a white torrent. And though
strictly terrestrial in structure, no other is so inseparably related
to water, not even the duck, or the bold ocean albatross, or the
stormy-petrel. For ducks go ashore as soon as they finish feedin... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Were the flights of all the ouzels in the Sierra traced on a chart,
they would indicate the direction of the flow of the entire system of
ancient glaciers, from about the period of the breaking up of the
ice-sheet until near the close of the glacial winter; because the
streams which the ouzels so rigidly follow are, w... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
No harsh lines are presented by any portion of the nest as seen in
place, but when removed from its shelf, the back and bottom, and
sometimes a portion of the top, is found quite sharply angular, because
it is made to conform to the surface of the rock upon which and against
which it is built, the little architect alw... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
On the south side of one of the falls, that portion of the precipice
which is bathed by the spray presents a series of little shelves and
tablets caused by the development of planes of cleavage in the granite,
and by the consequent fall of masses through the action of the water.
“Now here,” said I, “of all places, is ... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Love for song-birds, with their sweet human voices, appears to be more
common and unfailing than love for flowers. Every one loves flowers to
some extent, at least in life’s fresh morning, attracted by them as
instinctively as humming-birds and bees. Even the young Digger Indians
have sufficient love for the brightest... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
One cold afternoon, while hunting along the river-bank, he noticed a
plain-feathered little bird skipping about in the shallows, and
immediately raised his gun. But just then the confiding songster began
to sing, and after listening to his summery melody the charmed hunter
turned away, saying, “Bless your little heart... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Such, then, is our little cinclus, beloved of every one who is so
fortunate as to know him. Tracing on strong wing every curve of the
most precipitous torrents from one extremity of the Sierra to the
other; not fearing to follow them through their darkest gorges and
coldest snow-tunnels; acquainted with every waterfal... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Compared with the argali, which, considering its size and the vast
extent of its range, is probably the most important of all the wild
sheep, our species is about the same size, but the horns are less
twisted and less divergent. The more important characteristics are,
however, essentially the same, some of the best na... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
The horns of the male are of immense size, measuring in their greater
diameter from five to six and a half inches, and from two and a half to
three feet in length around the curve. They are yellowish-white in
color, and ridged transversely, like those of the domestic ram. Their
cross-section near the base is somewhat ... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
A few of the more energetic of the Pah Ute Indians hunt the wild sheep
every season among the more accessible sections of the High Sierra, in
the neighborhood of passes, where, from having been pursued, they have
become extremely wary; but in the rugged wilderness of peaks and
cañons, where the foaming tributaries of ... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
In the months of May and June, the wild sheep bring forth their young
in solitary and almost inaccessible crags, far above the nesting-rocks
of the eagle. I have frequently come upon the beds of the ewes and
lambs at an elevation of from 12,000 to 13,000 feet above sea-level.
These beds are simply oval-shaped hollows,... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
[Illustration: HEAD OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN WILD SHEEP.]
The gray, boulder-chafed river was singing loudly through the valley,
but above its massy roar I heard the booming of a waterfall, which drew
me eagerly on; and just as I emerged from the tangled groves and
brier-thickets at the head of the valley, the main fork of th... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
The main band, headed by an experienced chief, now began to cross the
wild rapids between the two divisions of the cascade. This was another
exciting feat; for, among all the varied experiences of mountaineers,
the crossing of boisterous, rock-dashed torrents is found to be one of
the most trying to the nerves. Yet th... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Throughout the entire ascent they did not make a single awkward step,
or an unsuccessful effort of any kind. I have frequently seen tame
sheep in mountains jump upon a sloping rock-surface, hold on
tremulously a few seconds, and fall back baffled and irresolute. But in
the most trying situations, where the slightest w... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
At the base of Sheep Rock, one of the winter strongholds of the Shasta
flocks, there lives a stock-raiser who has had the advantage of
observing the movements of wild sheep every winter; and, in the course
of a conversation with him on the subject of their diving habits, he
pointed to the front of a lava headland abou... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
It appears, therefore, that the methods of this wild mountaineering
become clearly comprehensible as soon as we make ourselves acquainted
with the rocks, and the kind of feet and muscles brought to bear upon
them.
The Modoc and Pah Ute Indians are, or rather have been, the most
successful hunters of the wild sheep in ... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
The only animal that may fairly be regarded as a companion or rival of
the sheep is the so-called Rocky Mountain goat (_Aplocerus montana_,
Rich.), which, as its name indicates, is more antelope than goat. He,
too, is a brave and hardy climber, fearlessly crossing the wildest
summits, and braving the severest storms, ... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Perhaps no wild animal in the world is without enemies, but
highlanders, as a class, have fewer than lowlanders. The wily panther,
slipping and crouching among long grass and bushes, pounces upon the
antelope and deer, but seldom crosses the bald, craggy thresholds of
the sheep. Neither can the bears be regarded as en... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
When I discovered this curious place, I was tracing the channels of the
ancient pre-glacial rivers, instructive sections of which have been
laid bare here and in the adjacent regions by the miners. Rivers,
according to the poets, “go on forever”; but those of the Sierra are
young as yet and have scarcely learned the w... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
The importance of these ancient gravels as gold fountains is well known
to miners. Even the superficial placers of the present streams have
derived much of their gold from them. According to all accounts, the
Murphy placers have been very rich—“terrific rich,” as they say here.
The hills have been cut and scalped, and... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Anxious that I should miss none of the wonders of their old gold-field,
the good people had much to say about the marvelous beauty of Cave City
Cave, and advised me to explore it. This I was very glad to do, and
finding a guide who knew the way to the mouth of it, I set out from
Murphy the next morning.
The most beaut... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Our way from Murphy’s to the cave lay across a series of picturesque,
moory ridges in the chaparral region between the brown foot-hills and
the forests, a flowery stretch of rolling hill-waves breaking here and
there into a kind of rocky foam on the higher summits, and sinking into
delightful bosky hollows embowered w... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
At the bottom of every dell we found little homesteads embosomed in
wild brush and vines wherever the recession of the hills left patches
of arable ground. These secluded flats are settled mostly by Italians
and Germans, who plant a few vegetables and grape-vines at odd times,
while their main business is mining and p... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Our guide, a jolly, rollicking Italian, led us into the heart of the
hill, up and down, right and left, from chamber to chamber more and
more magnificent, all a-glitter like a glacier cave with icicle-like
stalactites and stalagmites combined in forms of indescribable beauty.
We were shown one large room that was occa... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
The outer chambers of mountain caves are frequently selected as homes
by wild beasts. In the Sierra, however, they seem to prefer homes and
hiding-places in chaparral and beneath shelving precipices, as I have
never seen their tracks in any of the caves. This is the more
remarkable because notwithstanding the darkness... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
The Great Central Plain of California, during the months of March,
April, and May, was one smooth, continuous bed of honey-bloom, so
marvelously rich that, in walking from one end of it to the other, a
distance of more than 400 miles, your foot would press about a hundred
flowers at every step. Mints, gilias, nemophil... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
When I first saw this central garden, the most extensive and regular of
all the bee-pastures of the State, it seemed all one sheet of plant
gold, hazy and vanishing in the distance, distinct as a new map along
the foot-hills at my feet.
Descending the eastern slopes of the Coast Range through beds of gilias
and lupine... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
The great yellow days circled by uncounted, while I drifted toward the
north, observing the countless forms of life thronging about me, lying
down almost anywhere on the approach of night. And what glorious
botanical beds I had! Oftentimes on awaking I would find several new
species leaning over me and looking me full... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
More than seventy-five per cent. of all the rain of this season came
from the northwest, down the coast over southeastern Alaska, British
Columbia, Washington, and Oregon, though the local winds of these
circular storms blow from the southeast. One magnificent local storm
from the northwest fell on March 21. A massive... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
June, July, August, and September is the season of rest and sleep,—a
winter of dry heat,—followed in October by a second outburst of bloom
at the very driest time of the year. Then, after the shrunken mass of
leaves and stalks of the dead vegetation crinkle and turn to dust
beneath the foot, as if it had been baked in... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
In 1855, two years after the time of the first arrivals from New York,
a single swarm was brought over from San José, and let fly in the Great
Central Plain. Bee-culture, however, has never gained much attention
here, notwithstanding the extraordinary abundance of honey-bloom, and
the high price of honey during the ea... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
The present condition of the Grand Central Garden is very different
from that we have sketched. About twenty years ago, when the gold
placers had been pretty thoroughly exhausted, the attention of
fortune-seekers—not home-seekers—was, in great part, turned away from
the mines to the fertile plains, and many began expe... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
The bee-pastures of the Coast Ranges last longer and are more varied
than those of the great plain, on account of differences of soil and
climate, moisture, and shade, etc. Some of the mountains are upward of
4000 feet in height, and small streams, springs, oozy bogs, etc., occur
in great abundance and variety in the ... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
How perfectly enchanting and care-obliterating are these withdrawn
gardens of the woods—long vistas opening to the sea—sunshine sifting
and pouring upon the flowery ground in a tremulous, shifting mosaic, as
the light-ways in the leafy wall open and close with the swaying
breeze—shining leaves and flowers, birds and b... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
The Sierra region is the largest of the three main divisions of the
bee-lands of the State, and the most regularly varied in its
subdivisions, owing to their gradual rise from the level of the Central
Plain to the alpine summits. The foot-hill region is about as dry and
sunful, from the end of May until the setting in... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
From swarms that escaped their owners in the lowlands, the honey-bee is
now generally distributed throughout the whole length of the Sierra, up
to an elevation of 8000 feet above sea-level. At this height they
flourish without care, though the snow every winter is deep. Even
higher than this several bee-trees have bee... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
[Illustration: WILD BEE GARDEN.]
The plow has not yet invaded the forest region to any appreciable
extent, neither has it accomplished much in the foot-hills. Thousands
of bee-ranches might be established along the margin of the plain, and
up to a height of 4000 feet, wherever water could be obtained. The
climate at t... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Of all the upper flower fields of the Sierra, Shasta is the most
honeyful, and may yet surpass in fame the celebrated honey hills of
Hybla and hearthy Hymettus. Regarding this noble mountain from a bee
point of view, encircled by its many climates, and sweeping aloft from
the torrid plain into the frosty azure, we fin... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Thus, by forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive, has Mother
Nature accomplished her beneficent designs—now a flood of fire, now a
flood of ice, now a flood of water; and at length an outburst of
organic life, a milky way of snowy petals and wings, girdling the
rugged mountain like a cloud, as if the vivifying s... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Besides the common honey-bee there are many other species here—fine
mossy, burly fellows, who were nourished on the mountains thousands of
sunny seasons before the advent of the domestic species. Among these
are the bumblebees, mason-bees, carpenter-bees, and leaf-cutters.
Butterflies, too, and moths of every size and... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Not the least influential of the agents concerned in the superior
sweetness of the Shasta flora are its storms—storms I mean that are
strictly local, bred and born on the mountain. The magical rapidity
with which they are grown on the mountain-top, and bestow their charity
in rain and snow, never fails to astonish the... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
The main honey months, in ordinary seasons, are April, May, June, July,
and August; while the other months are usually flowery enough to yield
sufficient for the bees.
According to Mr. J.T. Gordon, President of the Los Angeles County
Bee-keepers’ Association, the first bees introduced into the county
were a single hiv... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
[Illustration: A BEE-RANCH ON A SPUR OF THE SAN GABRIEL RANGE.
CARDINAL FLOWER.]
In the course of a trip I made during the summer of that year through
Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles
counties, the deplorable effects of the drought were everywhere
visible—leafless fields, dead and dyi... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
[Illustration: WILD BUCKWHEAT.—A BEE RANCH IN THE WILDERNESS.]
Even the colonies nearest to the mountains suffered this year, for the
smaller vegetation on the foot-hills was affected by the drought almost
as severely as that of the valleys and plains, and even the hardy,
deep-rooted chaparral, the surest dependence o... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
Setting out from Pasadena, I reached the foot of the range about
sundown; and being weary and heated with my walk across the shadeless
valley, concluded to camp for the night. After resting a few moments, I
began to look about among the flood-boulders of Eaton Creek for a
camp-ground, when I came upon a strange, dark-... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
[Illustration: A BEE-PASTURE ON THE MORAINE DESERT, SPANISH BAYONET.]
About half an hour’s walk above the cabin, I came to “The Fall,” famous
throughout the valley settlements as the finest yet discovered in the
San Gabriel Mountains. It is a charming little thing, with a low, sweet
voice, singing like a bird, as it p... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
For 100 feet or so above the fall the ascent was made possible only by
tough cushions of club-moss that clung to the rock. Above this the
ridge weathers away to a thin knife-blade for a few hundred yards, and
thence to the summit of the range it carries a bristly mane of
chaparral. Here and there small openings occur ... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
[Illustration: A BEE-KEEPER’S CABIN.—BURRIELIA (ABOVE).—MADIA (BELOW).]
Next day, in the channel of a tributary that heads on Mount San
Antonio, I passed about fifteen or twenty gardens like the one in which
I slept—lilies in every one of them, in the full pomp of bloom. My
third camp was made near the middle of the g... | The Mountains of California | Muir, John | 1838 | 1914 | ['en'] | 126 | {'California -- Description and travel', 'Natural history -- California', 'Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Muir, John, 1838-1914 -- Travel -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Naturalists -- United States -- Biography', 'Mountain ecology -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)', 'Sierra Nevada (Calif.... | PG10012 | |
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Vol. 1. No. 9.
PUNCHINELLO
SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1870.
PUBLISHED BY THE
PUNCHINELLO PUBLISHING COMPANY,
83 NASSAU STREET, NEW-YORK.
* * * * *
_Will Shortly appear: Our New Serial, Written expressly for
Punchinello, by ORPHEUS C. KERR, Entitled, "The Mystery of Mr. E.
Drood." To be cont... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
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[Illustration: AT THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY.
_Mr. Nottmuch_, (to Clerk in Library.) "I SEE BY YOUR CIRCULAR THAT
VISITORS OF DISTINCTION HAVE FREE ACCESS TO YOUR READING-ROOM, AND AS I
HAVE CONTRIBUTED A STORY TO THE 'WAYERLY MAGAZINE,'" etc.
_Nottmuch_, (having obtained access to... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
The Treasury Department is much distressed by the great genius for
smuggling displayed by the Chinese immigrants. They secrete opium in all
sorts of wonderful places, and so worry the custom-house officers
dreadfully. Several children have been arrested for bringing their
"poppies" over with them, and feeling in favor... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
Protection, in this sense, is--well, let me follow my own admirable
example, and illustrate: You own a coal mine in Pennsylvania, which
contains tolerably poor coal, with which you mix a proper amount of
stone, and then sell the mixture for a high price. ICHABOD BLUE-NOSE
owns a coal mine in Nova Scotia, which furnish... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
Of course you don't imagine that I shall explain the details of this
profound subject. There are only two men in this country who think they
can do that, and each one of those says that the other is an idiot. As a
rule, figures can't lie; but look out for the exceptions when you run
across the subject of Protection. T... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
LOT.
* * * * *
A LITERARY VAMPIRE.
No greater mistake was ever made than the supposition that PUNCHINELLO
is to be assailed with impunity by rival publications. It is well known
that he never courted controversies or quarrels, and his best friends
understand perfectly his love for a peac... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
CARLYLE remarks, "Many a vessel, (for if not a Vessel, then surely we,
or our progenitors, in counting ships, and the assumptive floatative
mechanisms of anterior and past ages; or as the Assyrians
[under-estimating the force of the correlative elements] declared a
bridging, or a going over [not of seas merely, but of... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
The curtain rises upon the Genial Artist searching for his friend, the
Graceless Private, in the empty jugs and glasses at the _Golden Sun
Inn_. To him enters the Clumsy Trumpeter.
_Genial Artist_. "Where can he be? It--it must, and yet--"
_Clumsy Trumpeter (without Stoddart's usual oath.)_ "He's got 'em.
Hallo! frien... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
_Irate Old Gentleman who overhears the story_. "If he said that, sir, he
ought to have been hissed off the stage, sir; and turned out of the
company, sir! It was an insult to an estimable lady, and an outrage on
the audience, sir!"
_The second act takes place in the salon of ESTELLE. The Colonel and his
Commanding Sis... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
_One Half of the Audience_. "How do you like it? I like it so much."
_The Other Half_. "I like it immensely."
_Chorus from Every body_. "Why didn't STODDART swear?"
_Answering Echo from the Tipperary Hills_. "Because WALLACK has told him
that the public won't stand it any longer."
And the public is right. Mr. STODDART... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
Logical.
One PULLMAN, who preaches the "milk of the word," (not without gin,
PUNCHINELLO supposes,) declares that the BIBLE is full of lies. Well,
according to his own view of it, PULLMAN must be full of Scripture.
* * * * *
The Real Fact.
Mr. COLFAX, says the Cincinnati Gazette, intends... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
You say I'm not "dignified." Well, friends--are you?
My language, my manners, are rough, it is true;
My tones, and my jokes, (since you say it,) are coarse;
But very few streams rise above their own source.
If we're all "politicians," and they are such trash
As you have declared them, why were ... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
* * * * *
GLIMPSES OF FORTUNE.
You may not think so, my dear PUNCHINELLO, but it is true. I have had
them. I am not one of your bloated aristocrats--just at the present
moment--but I know as well as any one what WHITTIER meant when he said
"it might have been." As an instance of this, I ... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
I immediately put on that black hat, and with those identical gray
trowsers upon my legs, I strode down to 321 Dash street, and mounted
instantly to the second floor. As there was but one entrance door from
the stair-way on this floor, I felt certain that I had found the right
place.
The business of Mr. A.R.R. was evi... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
"Gentlemen," said he, "I know why you called, and you will allow me to
remark--"
"But look here," said a tall man with a blue cravat. "I think that I am
the person you want to see, and as I am in a hurry, I would like to see
you for a few minutes in private."
Dozens of angry eyes were now directed upon this presumptuo... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
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Query.
Under the conditions of the Fifteenth Amendment, should things continue
to be put down in Black and White?
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[Illustration:
"COMPARISONS ARE ODIOUS."
_Fond Mother._ "YES, HE'S A PRETTY GOOD BOY, BUT HE DON'T
TAKE TO HIS LETTERS."
_S... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
Observe PUNCHINELLO'S Cartoon, in which you shall behold the editorial
laundresses of New-York city having a washy time of it all around. There
is a, shriek of objurgation in the air, and a flutter of soiled linen on
the breeze. Granny MARBLE, to the extreme left of the picture, clenches
her fists over the pungent sud... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
_Cockney Waiter_. "FACT IS, SIR, HASHE IS IN THE 'ABIT OF MAKING USE OF
HODIOUS LANGUAGE TO HIS WAITERS, SIR, AND NO MAN OF HEDUCATION COULD
STAND _THAT_, SIR, YOU KNOW, SIR."]
* * * * *
JUMBLES.
MR. PUNCHINELLO, do you know when a woman is perfection itself? "No." I
do. It is when she i... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
Going to church is a good thing. All good people go, and from good
motives, of course. Mrs. BROWN, says a wicked gossip, goes to show a
bonnet; Mrs. JONES her shawl; Mrs. SMITH her silk; Mrs. JENKINS her
gloves and fan. No sane person believes that these ladies go for any
such purpose. The case isn't presumable. They ... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
TIMOTHY TODD.
* * * * *
THE REIGN OF COUPS.
The situation of France is always striking. This is because its people
are always being struck with a succession of Napoleonic ideas. They
labor, for example, under a constant _coup d'etat_. Their Press is the
victim of a regular _coup de main_... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
This snake, according to some naturalists, is oviparous, and according
to others viviparous; but all authorities agree that it is viperous in
the extreme. Serpents are generated in various ways; the horse-runner,
for instance, being derived from the fibres of horses' manes and tails,
which probably receive the breath ... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
* * * * *
A LETTER FROM A FRIEND.
Friend PUNCHINELLO: Thee has doubtless sorrowed, in spite of thy motley,
with those bereft at Richmond. Circumstances made that disaster a
calamity which we have all felt in common. But thee knows that
"Blessings come often in disguise." Let us find what... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
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Bar That!
The Toronto _Globe_ is at present treating the Premier of the Dominion
to a course of lectures, advising him not to get drunk so often as he
does. Now this is too much to expect, since the gentleman referred to
has, by virtue of his official position, the run of the B... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
Mr. YATES approved of the bill. It was his general principle to vote for
any thing that looked to the disbursement of money. He was particularly
in favor of this measure, because he wanted an uniform education for
every body. He didn't want any body else to know more than himself, and
he didn't want to know more than ... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
OUR PORTFOLIO.
Personal advertisements having reference to the matrimonial exigencies
of divers widows, old maids, and bachelors, are not without their
influence upon the sympathies of the age. Particular attention has been
recently directed toward an announcement made in a Cleveland paper to
the effect that "Two wido... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
* * * * *
Flag and Rag.
What is the difference between a railroad danger signal and a lost
pocket-handkerchief?
The one is a red flag, the other is a fled rag.
* * * * *
[Illustration: SOCIAL SCIENCE.
_Lecturer._ "THERE IS A CUMULATIVE APPROXIMATIVENESS, SO... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
"Don't you see that crowd of people coming up?"
"No I don't--it's only a herd of cattle from the Campagna."
"Take my glass. There, now; don't you see, I am right?"
"Yes," and the old man crossed himself, "It is so; I was mistaken."
"Thrue for you!" gobbled out PHELIM; "we've got to make a note of that!
PUNCHINELLO nev... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 13 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10013 | |||
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_Rural Old Lady_. "BARE-BACK, INDEED!--THAT'S NO WORD FOR IT, MY DEAR!"]
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Vol. I. No. 18
PUNCHINELLO
SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1870.
PUBLISHED BY THE
PUNCHINELLO PUBLISHING COMPANY,
83 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK.
THE MYSTERY OF MR. E. DROOD,
By ORPHEUS C. KERR,
Continued in this Number.
[Sidenote: See 15th Page for Extra Premiums.]
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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by the
PUNCHINELLO PUBLISHING COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District
court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
* * * * *
THE
MYSTERY OF MR. E. DROOD.
AN ADAPTATION,
BY ORPHEUS C. KERR.
CHAPTER XII.... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 12 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10014 | |||
Walking slowly near the churchyard on this particular freezing December
evening, with his hands behind his bank, and his eyes intent for any
envious husband who may be "with a rush retiring," monumentally
counselled, after reading the Epitaph, Judge SWEENEY suddenly comes upon
Father DEAN conversing with SMYTHE, the s... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 12 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10014 | |||
"The truth is," explains Mr. BUMSTEAD, "that Judge SWEENEY put into my
head to do a few pauper graves with JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, some moonlight
night, for the mere oddity and dampness of the thing.--And I should
regret to believe," added Mr. BUMSTEAD, raising his voice as saw that
the judiciary was about to interrupt--"And... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 12 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10014 | |||
When night falls upon the earth like a drop of ink upon the word Sun,
and the stars glitter like the points of so many poised gold pens all
ready to write the softer word Moon above the blot, the organist of St.
Cow's sits in his own room, where his fire keeps-up a kind of aspenish
twilight, and executes upon his acco... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 12 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10014 | |||
"JOHN McLAUGHLIN, ahoy!"
In response, the master of the mansion promptly opens the door, and it
is then perceptible that his basement, parlor, spare-bedroom and attic
are all on one floor, and that a couple of pigs are spending the season
with him. Showing his visitor into this ingeniously condensed
establishment, he ... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 12 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10014 | |||
"Hallo! What's all this?" gasps Mr. MCLAUGHLIN, struggling affrightedly
in his suffocating cage of whalebone and alpaca. "What's this here old
lady's hoop-skirt doing on me?"
"Peace, wriggling dotard!" hisses BUMSTEAD, jamming the umbrella tighter
over him. "If they see us they'll want some of the West Indian
Restorat... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 12 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10014 | |||
_Scales_.--How old was DANIEL LAMBERT at the time of his death?
_Answer_.--736 lbs.
_Ignoramus_.--Why were the Roman _Saturnalia_ so called?
_Answer_.--The proper spelling of the word is _Sauternalia_. They were
wine feasts; and the vintage most in favor at them was Haut Sauterne.
_Chasseur_. Is the antelope to ... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 12 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10014 | |||
The Californians have the authority of Congress itself, for this duty.
By reference to "HEYL'S Rates of Duties on Imports," page 36, art. 691,
under head of "Act of June 30, 1864, chap. 171," "An act to increase
Duties on Imports," etc., we find "on paddy one cent and a half per
pound." Now if a good-sized Irishman pa... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 12 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10014 | |||
At the Custom House, Dutchman and Yankee
Are thryin' to talk wid a brogue,
They're all _Irish_, now--fat, lean, or lanky,
And green are the neckties in vogue.
They're thracin' themselves to some DURPHY,
O'NEILL, or McCANN, or O'TAAFFE,
I'll go bail the bowld conqueror MURPHY
'S too owld to be c... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 12 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10014 | |||
All the members of the genus are slender and graceful in their shape and
Gnatty in their general appearance. The common mosquito is remarkable
for its strong attachments. It follows man with more than canine
fidelity, and in some cases, the dog-like pertinacity of its affection
can only be restrained by Muslin. It is ... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 12 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10014 | |||
"A place for Louvres, and for Louvres only."
* * * * *
THE WATERING PLACES.
Punchinello's Vacations.
Mr. PUNCHINELLO puts up at the Atlantic Hotel when he goes to Cape May;
and if you were to ask him why, he would tell you that it was on account
of the admirable water-punches which JOHN ... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 12 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10014 | |||
"Why, Mr. President!" said he, "I thought you would be found at Long
Branch this season."
"Long--thunder!" ejaculated the General, his face as black as the ace of
spades, (which, by the way, is blue.) "I might go to Nova Zembla for a
quiet smoke, and some sneaking politician would crawl out from the ice
with a petitio... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 12 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10014 | |||
It was a sleeping shark!
The startled fish opened his eyes to their roundest, and backed water.
So did Mr. P.
For an instant they gazed at each other in utter surprise. Then the
shark began slowly to sink. Mr. P. knew what that meant. The monster was
striving to get beneath him for the fatal snap!
Mr. P. sank with him... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 12 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10014 | |||
He looked upon her!
He gazed for a moment, with glowing, passionate eyes, upon that
matchless form--upon that angelic face, and then--he clasped his brows
in hopeless agony. Stepping back, he gave the maiden one glance of
wildest love, followed by another of bitterest despair; and sank
helpless into his chair.
[Illust... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 12 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10014 | |||
If you only knew how hard it is for a poor dog to make his way in the
world, with no one to help him to a mouthful of food, you would feel
sorry for us.
But I think we might get along better if it wasn't for the scarcity of
water. I hardly know a spot in the city where I can get a drink; and
many a time I have gone al... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 12 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10014 | |||
If our theory is correct, the good people of Mecklenburg (was it not in
Mecklenburg that the agitation for Independence began?) may be assured
that deliverance from this unreasonable Dragon is possible. We think it
more than likely that it is simply GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN practicing for
the next invasion of Great Britai... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 12 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10014 | |||
Permit me to make a few additional suggestions.
Get some worsted and a pair of needles; set up from twenty to forty
stitches, more or less, and knit till you are tired. When finished--(the
knitting)--draw out the needles and bite off the thread. You will thus
have made an elegant lamp-mat, of the same color as the wor... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 12 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10014 | |||
Very truly,
ANN O. BLUE.
* * * * *
For Singers, Only.
What is the best wine for the voice?
Canary.
* * * * *
A Chop-House Aphorism.
Customers who fee waiters may always be sure of their Feed.
* * * * *
Washy.
The daily papers ... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 12 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10014 | |||
A little cloud no bigger than a man's hand made its appearance over the
golden streets of San Francisco.
It is growin' bigger, and afore we know it, will be bigger than a white
elefant.
You have ceased the dilemer by the horn which hangs suspended from the
dilemer's head, like the tail of a kite.
While you have set th... | Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 | Various | ['en'] | 12 | {'American wit and humor -- Periodicals'} | PG10014 |
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