[By ferryboats from Ferry depot, or via the Presidio, which see.]

[Illustration: THE LAUGHTER OF THE BROOK] It was a bright June morning when Hal and I took the ferryboat for Sausalito, then by train to Mill Valley.

Like the ferryboats in New York harbor, running hither and thither, crossing each other's tracks, the whole list of lecturers were on the wing, flying to every town and city from San Francisco to New York.

From the ferryboat on the dull-green bosom of the river he first renewed his memory of the spectral and forbidding abysses and pinnacles of New York.