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 152 THE TOURIST'S CALIFORNIA arrows, lizards'-tails, scorpions, triangles, light- ning zig-zags and spotted snakes reflect not only nature but immemorial tradition. Very fine bas- kets are adorned with feather-work, coins and aba- lone shells. But even the humblest dala is wrought with infinite " beauty, pains, skill and variety." Here are my ivory grasses ; once they clung To mountain ledges where the great clouds hung. And these slim jetty ferns their stems unwind^ By deep-down canon springs with dark moss lined. And here are weeds and limber roots up-strung. I weave my baskets; all the high and low Of my wild life in these wild stems I snare And many a mystic thought doth shape and flow, Setting itself in picture firm and fair. 4 Ukiah is the gateway to a vast recreation ground of forests and fishing-streams, and venturesome trails for horseman and pedestrian. Stages make week-day trips through the redwoods to summer inns and to points on the coast to Blue, Laurel Dell and Upper Lakes ; to Vichy, Saratoga, Wit- ter and Orr's Springs ; to Poma and Potter Valley (25 miles); to Point Arena and Mendocino (47 miles). At the two last-named places the roads from Ukiah touch the highway which connects the
 * The Indian Basket-Maker, by Anna Ball, in Out West.