CHAPTER IV.

A spring ride in Oregon--The start--The equipment--Horses and saddlery--Packs--The roadside--Bird fellow-travelers--Snakes--The nearest farm--Bees--The great pasture--The poisonous larkspur-- Market-gardening--The Cardwell Hill--The hill-top--The water-shed --Mary River--Crain's--The Yaquina Valley--Brush, grass, and fern --The young Englishmen's new home--A rustic bridge--"Chuck-holes"-- The road supervisor--Trapp's--The mill-dam--Salmon-pass law--Minnows and crawfish--The Pacific at rest--Yaquina--Newport. 48