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Circa Date
1887
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# A good natured (sailor &) vagabond, fond of wandering but without [visible] enthusiasm, nosing among logs & trees with sober unhasting industry now & then shaking the rain from his hair or the dew from the huckleberry bushes, heeding no kind of weather, never in a hurry or fuss, eating as if it were a sad duty
# His delight was to hide when wanted though never wanted except for his own sake the cold-blooded rascal, meals & when we were leaving camp neither flattery not fault finding moved him so unshakably self-complacent
He seemed rather to court neglect & [contumacy]
# A small monotonous ignoramus of a dog without sufficient intellect to be either good or bad, or in any way interesting
$ # Cold & unemotional as a [small] level glacier curled up in a blue shadow on the mountains
# The only keen thing his eyes, aye those eyes
& what an airing we got that day in the gray roaring storm & what a washing in the rain
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Aftermath
Versions of the gulf crevasse back at night with dreadful vividness & we [fancied] in [sleep] again & again we were on that narrow bridge
An instructive trying day but not invigorating, we were tired out “used up” & reaching camp fell down & went to sleep
Felt my mind instructed & heart fertilized & refreshed by this trying adventure
Where his hopes were- heart was, I did not know
Afterwards should something in his behaviors very like devotion a changed dog
Never in the least gay
At first I thought he was sad & out of countenance about something grave & formal
We plodded on feeling our way through the fog & rain
And how many odors were wafted to us that awful day across the ice from the rosing woods & hill top gardens
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MuirReel33 Notebook01 Img009.Jpeg
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