i draw more water and wash one or two garments daily taking care that there are no witnesses of my yesterday a calf sucked one into hopeless rags the rest of the day i spend in mending knitting writing to you and the various odds and ends which arise when one has to do all for at twelve and some food is put on the box by the door and at dusk we make up our beds a distressed iv the rocky mountains woman has just given birth to a child in a temporary by the river and i go to help her each day i have made the acquaintance of all the struggling within a walk au have come for health and most have found or are finding it even if they have no better shelter than a or a blanket on sticks laid across four poles the climate of is considered the finest in north america and and from nervous diseases are here in hundreds and thousands either trying the camp cure for three or four months or settling here permanently people can safely sleep out of doors for six months of the year the plains are from to feet high and some of the settled or mountain valleys are from to the air besides being much is very dry the is far below the average are rare and nearly unknown the sunshine is bright and almost constant and three of the days are the milk beef and bread are good the climate is neither so hot in summer nor so cold in winter as that of the states and when the days are hot the nights are cool snow rarely lies on the lower and horses and cattle don t require to be either fed or during the winter of course the air all this is fix m i am not under favourable the effect of the climate of can hardly be a lady s life ik iv either for mind or body and at present i feel a singular and difficulty in taking exercise but this is said to be the form of the affection known on higher as or mountain sickness and is only temporary i am forming a plan for getting farther into the mountains and hope that my next letter will be more lively i killed a this morning close to the cabin and have taken its rattle which has eleven joints my life is by the abundance of these � and both deadly carpet and green dangerous water tree and mouse harmless but abominable seven have been killed just outside the cabin since i came a snake three feet long was found under the pillow of the sick woman i see in all withered twigs and am ready to flee at the sound of a shaken leaf and besides the earth and air are alive and noisy with forms of insect life large and small humming striking devouring exaggerated in travelling through the territory afterwards i found that nine out of every ten were cured and medical works on the climate of the state as it now is represent as the most remarkable in the world l l r v the rocky v those hands of yours � a � � the house mother � family a grim sunday � a thick englishman � a morning call � another atmosphere � the great lone land � found � a log camp � bad footing for horses � accidents disappointment september the absence of a date shows my tliey have no newspaper have no the father is away for the day and none of the others can help me and they look contemptuously upon my desire for information on the subject the monotony will come to an end to morrow for offers to be my guide over the mountains to park and has persuaded his wife for once to go for a and with much reluctance many at the waste of time and many apprehensions of danger and loss she has consented to accompany him my life has grown less dull from theirs having become more interesting to me and as i have made myself agreeable we are on fairly friendly terms my first move in the direction of was however a few days ago having finished ic a lady s life in my own work i offered to wash up the plates but mrs c with a look which conveyed more than words a curl of her nose and a sneer in her said guess you ll make more work nor you ll do those hands of yours very brown and coarse they were ain t no good never done nothing i guess then to her awkward daughter this woman says she ll wash up ha ha look at her arms and hands this was the nearest approach to a laugh i have heard and have never seen even a tendency towards a smile since then i have risen in their estimation by a lamp � fashion � by putting a of rag into a tin of fat they have actually condescended to sit up till the stars come out since another advance was made by means of the shell pattern i am knitting for you there has been a tendency towards of it and a few days since the girl snatched it out of my hand saying i want this and apparently took it to the camp this has resulted in my having a knitting class with the woman her married daughter and a woman from the camp as pupils then i have gained ground with the man by being able to catch and saddle a horse i am often reminded of my favourite � beware of desperate steps the darkest day live till to morrow will have passed away v the rocky mountains but oh what a hard narrow life it is with wliich i am now in contact a 