Stepping In The Mud Volume 6

Day 4,315, 03:19 Published in USA USA by Hcmadman legione astra equitum

Date: 3:15 Day 4315
By: Hcmadman


Rant

Summer got here about a month and a half late, its still here. #BringOnFall

Inspirational

Plato has promised to start taking ginkgo biloba, he forgot why.

Funny



Quote



"The first night was spent at the “Half-Way
House” occupied by a mountaineer who lived
there with his train of burros. During the open
season, the mountaineer supplied the summit
station with fire wood at $50 a cord. The whole
season was required to make the delivery.
During the winter, the wood was collected at
the shack for summer delivery. The load for a
burro was usually two, four-foot sticks slung
to the back.
Our night at the “Half-Way House” was
made hideous by the wild antics of huge flying
rats, searching for food. They threw down
from the shelves and overturned every article
of kitchen equipment again and again. The
racket of the tins and kettles was deafening,
if not altogether terrifying. The Observer and
myself occupied a bed together covered
with buffalo robes and other skins. We were
cautioned to cover our heads and hands for
protection against the flying rats. Sleep was
out of the question while these devils were
performing. Between 1 am and 2 am they left
the shack, having ransacked every quarter
in a vain search for more food after having
devoured the waste from the kitchen and table
placed where they could easily obtain it.
We obtained a little rest, had a fair
breakfast and a chance to examine two dead
rats, killed by the mountaineer. After, we
resumed arranging our equipment."

- John Park Finley


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