The Hundredth Meridian

through the steep soft clay to the bottomrnand across a succession of giillevs to thernfence, where we dismounted and tiedrnup to sagebushes to eat our lunch, whilernthe cows bedded gratefully at a discreetrndistance of 50 yards. Wc ate ham andrncheese sandwiches and drank fruitrndrinks, and were concerned with dividingrna Twinkle . . .