Identifier: campfiremusingsl00gray (find matches)
Title: Camp-fire musings : life and good times in the woods
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Gray, William Cunningham, 1830-1901
Subjects: Natural history Outdoor life
Publisher: Edinburgh : D. Douglas
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ng hisbest, and then darting out and back to his perchagain; that old gator swimming around; a gray squir-rel whisking about overhead, all this in mid-winter,and you, dear reader, not with me ! If you had beenthere, and I could have handed you a palmetto leafwith a bit of that crumbling fish on it, and some toma-toes and oranges, and coffee and bread, it would haveeased a conscience which accused me of selfishness.If I could have pulled an armful of moss for you tosit upon, and twisted a garland of jessamine aboutyour head—romantic? Oh, yes. Nature is the wild-est of romancers. The rest of the northerners are sitting about in thel4-per-day hotels, looking at fountains pumped bysteam, listening to a brass band on the veranda; 274 Camp-^tre IHustngs pinching their waists in satins, and cutting their chinswith standing collars. Such things are not for me.They are very fine, but the world, as God made it, isgood enough for me. Give me nature. Give melove. Give me God. Take all the rest.
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MUSING XXVI VENUS Venus has always been the most interesting of theplanets. It received its name because of its beauty.When it is nearest us it has its back to us, and its faceto the sun, so to speak, and we only see it as a cres-cent, like the new moon. If we could have its fulllight at such times its light would be equal to that ofthe half moon. There is more interest for us inVenus than in its beauty as a morning or an eveningstar. It is the next younger sister of the earth, ofabout the same size, same density of atmosphere, andsame length of day. The most marked difference isin the length of its year, which is only two hundredand twenty-four days, seventeen hours, and in theintensity of the heat of the sun. The inclination ofits axis to the ecliptic is so much less than that of theearth, that it does not have an equal variation of theseasons. This accounts for the existence, which isaffirmed, of polar ice-caps. At the poles of Venusthe suns rays strike across on lines level with t

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