MRS. FREMONT OLDER,
in The Giants.
APRIL 14.
The strong westerly winds drawing in through the Golden Gate sweep with unobstructed force over the channel, and, meeting the outflowing and swiftly moving water, kick up a sea that none but good boats can overcome. To go from San Francisco to the usual cruising grounds the channel must be crossed. There is no way out of it. And it is to this circumstance, most probably, we are indebted for as expert a body of yachtsmen as there is anywhere in the United States. Timid, nervous, unskilled men cannot handle yachts under such conditions of wind and waves. The yachtsmen must have confidence in themselves, and must have boats under them which are seaworthy and staunch enough to keep on their course, regardless of adverse circumstances.
CHARLES G. YALE,
in Yachting in San Francisco Bay, in The Californian.
APRIL 15.
THE LIZARD.
I sit among the hoary trees
With Aristotle on my knees