blankets a lady s life in in and in half an hour i was all right and ready for a ferocious meal m if there s a traveller on the to night god help him the host had said to hie wife just before i came in i found there storm stayed and that � tc his great credit at the time � my money matters were all right after the sound and refreshing sleep which one gets in this splendid climate i was ready for an early start but warned by yesterday s experience waited till twelve to be sure of the weather the air was intensely clear and the seventeen degrees below the snow sparkled and snapped under one s feet it was beautiful in this climate if you only go out for a short time you do not feel cold even without a hat or any additional i bought a for myself however and some thick got some stout for s hind feet had a pleasant talk with some english friends did some for the men in the park and hung about waiting for a freight train to break the track but eventually by the good news from you left alone and for the last time i little thought that miserable day on which i arrived at it with dr and mrs of the glories of which it was the gate and of the good time i should have now i am at home in it every one in it and along the t addresses me in a friendly way by � the rocky mountains name and the newspapers with their intolerable personality have made me and my riding exploits so notorious that travellers speak courteously to me when they meet me on the doubtless wishing to see what sort of monster i am have met nothing but civility both of manner and speech except that pistol shot it looked beautiful the snow so pure and the sky such a bright sharp blue the snow was so deep and level that after a few miles i left the track and for storm peak rode sixteen miles over the without seeing man bird or beast � a solitude awful even in the bright sunshine the cold always great became piteous i increased the of yesterday by exposing my hand in mending the and when the sun sank in indescribable beauty behind the mountains and colour in the sky i got off and walked the last four miles and stole in here in the coloured twilight without any one seeing me the life of which wrote before is scarcely less severe though lightened by a hope of change and this weather brings out some special the stove has to be in the living room the children cannot go out and good and delightful as they are it is hard for them to be shut up all day with four it is more of a trouble than you would think for a lady in precarious health that before each meal a lady s life in xvi eggs butter milk preserves and have to bt unless they are kept on the stove there is no part of the room in which they do not it is uninteresting down here in the i long for the rushing winds the piled up peaks the great pines the wild night noises the poetry and the prose of the free jolly life of my i can hardly that the river which lies ice bound outside this house is the same which flashes through park and which i saw snow born on long s peak park december yesterday morning the had disappeared so it was � below at least i lay awake from cold all night but such is the wonderful effect of the climate that when i got up at five to the household for my early start i felt quite refreshed we on beef and i left at eight to ride forty five miles before night dr and a gentleman who was staying there me the first miles i did like that ride racing with the other through the air in that indescribable sunshine the snow from the horses feet like dust i was soon warm we stopped at a s to feed and the old amused me by seeming to think park almost inaccessible in winter the distance was the rocky mountains greater than i had been told and he said that could not get there before eleven at night and not at all if there was much drift i wanted the gentlemen to go on with me as far as the devil s gate but they could not because their horses were tired and when the heard that he exclaimed indignantly what that woman going into the mountains alone she ll lose the track or be to death but when i told him i had ridden the trail in the storm of tuesday and had ridden over six hundred miles alone in the mountains he treated me with great respect as a fellow and gave me some matches saying you ll have to camp out anyhow you d better make a fire than be to death the idea of my spending the night in the forest alone by a fire struck me as most grotesque we did not start again till one and the two gentlemen rode the first two miles with me on that track the little there a full stream has to be crossed eighteen times and they had been wood across it breaking it and it had broken and several times making thick and thin places � indeed there were which even i thought bad where the ice let us through and it was hard for the horses to struggle upon it again and one of the gentlemen who though a most accomplished man was not a was once or twice a lady s life in in the ludicrous 