a touch of the Chase sarcasm..

from Coast Trails
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Chase had a fine sense of humor and had no reservations about 

mixing humor with more thoughtful passages. Often it comes 
as a surprise, at the end of an anecdote, as in the following, where
he describes bedding down for the night.

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“ … Our horses fraternized and quarreled alternately in such close proximity to our beds 
                 that they could have kicked out our brains as we slept if they had been so minded. “ 


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