One day, while riding in advance of the command, down San Francisco Creek, I heard some one calling my name from a little bunch of willow brush on the opposite bank, and, upon looking closely at the spot, I saw a negro.

On Monday morning, the 6th of June, they crossed the British line; but it was not till Wednesday, the 8th, at four in the afternoon, just ten months after leaving San Francisco, that the Oklahoma's passengers saw between the volcanic hills on the right bank of the Yukon a stretch of boggy tundra, whereon hundreds of tents gleamed, pink and saffron.

They're all there now (except one) washin' out gold for the couple of San Francisco card-sharpers that own the claim.

There are some who imagine that the negro, if liberated, would renew the scenes of San Domingo, and massacre the people of the South.

I had my share in arranging at San Remo the Spa Conference, in the hope and with the desire of discussing frankly with the Germans what sum they could pay by way of indemnity without upsetting their economy and damaging severely that of the Allies.

Chater, although one of the most expert jewel thieves in Europe, had never been actually guilty of any graver offense, and when we heard that he was in San Francisco, where he had opened a small bar and was trying to live honestly, we resolved to allow him to remain there.

We were woken up a little after midnight by two British Staff officers, who were very vague and ignorant, but told us to go next morning to San Martino di Lupari, a little village midway between Cittadella and Castelfranco.

At San Trinità, just outside Bassano on the road to Marostica, is a very fine cypress avenue.

At San Trinità on the way back we collided with an Italian wagon and had to stop for repairs.

* The Battery ate their Christmas dinner at San Martino, though the air had been thick with talk of an immediate move.

But luckily they left San Martino alone, thinking it too small to worry about.

" "Twenty-four hours to Chicago," muttered Uncle John; "and then three days to Los Angeles or San Francisco.

Tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the Sierras and coastwise hills where the first swings across the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley.

The season's end in the vast dim valley of the San Joaquin is palpitatingly hot, and the air breathes like cotton wool.

My friend Ewan told me, among other things, when he came back from San Juan Hill, that not all the carnage of battle turned his bowels as the sight of slant black wings rising flockwise before the burial squad.

The money fell due the winter of the Big Snow, when all the trails were forty feet under drifts, and Roeder was away in San Francisco selling his cattle.

The streets of the west Sierras sloping toward the San Joaquin are long and winding, but from the east, my country, a day's ride carries one to the lake regions.

" Martinez of San Domingo, he of the horrible experience, nodded with a lurking smile, curled a leg under him and clasped his fingers behind his head.

The Texans, who beat Santa Anna, at San Jacinto, you must know, were not gringoes, but brother Mexicans, of whom we have reason to be proud.

In his books and in his program of reform, "the plan of San Luis Potosi," he attacked the Diaz regime.

This view prevailed to a considerable extent in Mexico south of San Luis Potosi.

Just San Teodoro, forgive me!

"Blessed San Teodoro!

" "San Theodoro help us all, and hint what is to be done!

Excellent accommodation can be obtained at the Casa san Mimi (Antonio Saora) for travellers.