i have hia a lady s life in xv ideas of right are the possible he says that he believes in god but what he knows or believes of god s law i know not to resent insult with your revolver to revenge yourself on those who have injured you to be true to a comrade and share your last crust with him to be to good women to be generous and hospitable and at the last to die game � these are the articles of his creed and i suppose they are received by men of his stamp he hates with a bitter hatred and returns it having undergone much provocation from jim in his moods of and violence and being not a little envious of the fascination which his manners and conversation have for the strangers who come up here on returning down the the view was than i have ever seen it the in dark shadow the park below lying in intense sunlight with all the majestic which sweep down upon it in depths of infinite blue gloom and above the peaks dazzling in purity and glorious in form the blue of the sky how shall i ever leave this land which is very far off how can i ever leave it is the real question we are going on the principle let us eat and drink for to morrow we die and the stores are melting away the two meals are not an economical plan for we are so much more hungry that we eat more than when we had the rocky mountains we had a good deal of sacred music to day to make it as like sunday as possible the faint melancholy of this winter loneliness is very fascinating how glorious the fires of the winter are and how to night the crimson clouds descended just to the mountain tops and were reflected on the pure surface of the snow the door of this room looks due north and as i write the pole star and a cold moon hangs over the of long s peak november we have lost count of time and can only agree on the fact that the date is somewhere near the end of november our life has settled down into serenity and our singular and enforced is very pleasant we might be three men living together but for the courtesy and consideration which they show to me our work goes on like the only which ever arises is that the men do not like me to do anything that they think hard or such as a horse or bringing in water the days go very fast it was to day before i knew that it was it is a calm life without the men are so easy to live with they never fuss or or sigh or make a trouble of anything it would amuse you to come into our wretched little kitchen before our late breakfast and a lady s ufe in xv find mr busy at the stove myself washing the supper dishes and mr drying them or both the men busy at the stove while i sweep the floor our food is a great object of interest to us and we are hungry now that we have only two meals a day about each goes forth to his � mr k to chop wood mr b to haul water i to wash the milk and water the horses on saturday the men shot a deer and on going for it to day they found nothing but the hind legs and following a track which they expected would lead them to a beast s hole they came quite carelessly upon a large mountain which however took itself out of their reach before they were sufficiently recovered from their surprise to fire at it these lions which are really a species of are as well as cowardly lately one got into a in the of the st and killed thirty sheep the blood from their throats november this has been a day of minor events as weu as a busy one i was so busy that i never sat down from till i had washed my one change of and though i never iron my clothes i like to them till they are as white as snow and they were on the line when some furious came down from long s peak against the mountains which i could not stand and when i did get out all my clothes were blown into from an inch to four inches in width literally destroyed one how very little is necessary either for comfort or happiness i made a four pound cake baked some bread mended my riding dress cleaned up generally wrote some letters with the hope that some day they might be posted and took a magnificent walk reaching the cabin again in the melancholy glory which now immediately the darkness we were all busy getting our supper ready when the dogs began to bark furiously and we heard the noise of horses at last we exclaimed but we were wrong mr went out and returned saying that it was a young man who had come up with s and team and that the had gone over into a seven miles from mr looked very grave it s another mouth to feed he said they asked no questions and brought the lad in a assured fellow of twenty who having fallen into delicate health at a college had been sent up here by to work for his board the men were too courteous to ask him what he was doing up here but i boldly asked him where he lived and to our dismay he replied i ve come to live here so we had to settle what to do with him we discussed the food question gravely as it presented a real difficulty we put g a 