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A Summer in a Canyon: A California Story

Chapter 19: FOOTNOTES.
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The narrative follows a lively summer camping party in a California canyon as they establish a rustic camp, outfit tents, fashion furnishings from trunks and branches, and create improvised domestic spaces such as a sky parlour, card-room, and brush kitchen. Daily life blends practical labor, playful rivalry between boys and girls, inventive amusements, campfire storytelling, birthday celebrations, and small acts of mischief, while adult figures help maintain comfort and order. Scenes highlight communal resourcefulness, the pleasures of outdoor living, and affectionate relationships among the campers as they negotiate routines, games, and occasional embarrassments during their holiday together.

FOOTNOTES.

[100a] Foot-notes by a rival of the Countess.

[100b] Is that spelled right?

[100c] Fifty miles an hour, Jack says.

[100d] Poetic licence.

[100e] Gone back to cold cream.

[100f] And pie.

[100g] For sale at all bookstores, ten cents a copy.

[198] The words for Pretty Polly Oliver are mixed with the music score and given below for those not able to see the picture.—DP.

1. Pretty Pol-ly Ol-i-ver, will you be my own?
Pret-ty Pol-ly Ol-i-ver, as cold as a
stone; But my love has grown warm-er as
cold-er you’ve grown, O Pret-ty Pol-ly
Ol-i-ver, will you be my own?

2. Pret-ty Pol-ly Ol-i-ver, I love you so dear!
Pret-ty Pol-ly Ol-i-ver, my hope and my
fear; I’ve wait-ed for you, sweet-heart, this
many a long year; For Pret-ty Pol-ly
Ol-i-ver, I’ve loved you so dear!

3. Pret-ty Pol-ly Ol-i-ver, I’ll bid you good bye:
Pret-ty Pol-ly Ol-i-ver, for you I’ll not
die; You’ll nev-er get a tru-er true
lov-er than I, So Pret-ty Pol-ly
Ol-i-ver, good-bye, love, good-bye!

[266a] “Four little white doves began to coo,
  To coo to their mates so fair;
And each to the other dove said, “Your coo
  With mine cannot compare!”

[266b] The words for Las Palomas are mixed with the music score and given below for those not able to see the picture.—DP.

Cua-tro pa-lo-mi-tas blan-cas que vienen de por a—llá.
U-nas á las o-tras di-cen no hay a-mor como el de a-cá.