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But in apresentation copy of 'Roughing It', given to Pond as a souvenir, hewrote: Here ends one of the smoothest and pleasantest trips across thecontinent that any group of five has ever made. If I were lazier--like Rice--nothing could keep me from retiring. Cable, Kate Douglas Riggs, Gilder, Carnegie,Bangs, Bacheller--they kept it up far into the next morning. The memory of it will outlast all the others that exist to-day.

It was unpleasantenough at first, though he rather enjoyed the convalescent period. Once he askedif any estimate could now be made of what portion would accrue to hisfamily from the publication. The heavy forest shuts us solidly in on three sides--there are no neighbors. xpressing his debt ofobligation to those who had published and sold his books; he delivered afine address at the din