Excerpt from My Elopement With Martha: A Mountaineering EpisodeTo be brief, I have been a member or Alpine Club 'oi Canada for five years. _with what enthusiasm I joined and mentally painted a beautiful halo arotfnd my head as a Graduating Member at the first succeeding Camp. Others have no doubt experienced and the rest can very well imagine. It was not to happen, however - 4m halo was not for me. There appeared to be more alluring. Albeit less satisfying recreation near at hand, or that evil spirit Procrastination acquired a foothold, and the year went by.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.