text:  Here I had many a summer night enacted as recorded in my "Mountain Decameron " the amateur-gipsy "a long while ago " _bivouacking_ in their wildest solitudes between some wood and water on moonlight greensward or reading at our tents' mouth by a lamp while two boys my sons slept soundly within; and in the blindness of human nature thus sneering against the "gentlemen of the press " sneered myself to sleep "shut up in measureless content