MARK TWAIN

and "Sudden Death," but it is not possible to describe

them.

Feb. 6. Man in San Francisco jumped lot and built
house on it; propped on low pins. Hogs used to congre-
gate under it and grunt all night. Man bored holes in the
floor and his wife poured hot water through—hogs strug-
gling to get out hauled the house down the hill on their
backs and the lot was rejumped by its proper owner early
in the morning. .

Feb. 25, 1865. Left Angels with Jim and Dick and
walked over the mountain to Jack-ass in a snowstorm, the
first I ever saw in California. The view from the moun-
tain tops was beautiful.