Byron declared that easy writing was very hard reading.

I reversed that method, always working hard over each lecture.

For instance, I spent two months in preparing "Bachelor Authors," cramming and condensing, and passing quickly over dangerous ground.

With my vocal training I could easily be heard by an audience of five hundred.
A friend was eager to go to Alaska by Seattle; then, after our return, visit Yellowstone Park and San Francisco.

She urged me so eloquently to accompany her, that I left my home in Metcalf, Massachusetts, taking great risks in many ways, but wonderful to relate, nothing disastrous occurred.
We scurried by fastest trains across the country to Seattle, just in time to take the Steamer _Topeka_ from Seattle on August 8, 1899, the last boat of the season, and the last chance tourists ever had to see the Muir Glacier in its marvellous glory, as it was broken badly before the next summer.
My friend advised me kindly to ask no questions of the captain, as she knew well what a bore that was.