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panion, but the pleasure after all depends 

 a good deal on the weather. To be sure, 

 after a little experience in roughing it, the 

 hardships seem a good deal less formidable 

 than they formerly did, and a man becomes 

 able to roll up in a wet blanket and sleep 

 all night in a pelting rain without hurting 

 himself though he will shiver a good deal, 

 and feel pretty numb and stiff in those chill 

 and dreary hours just before dawn. But 

 when a man's clothes and bedding and rifle 

 are all wet, no matter how philosophically he 

 may bear it, it may be taken for granted that 

 he does not enjoy it. So fair weather is a 

 very vital and important element among 

 those that go to make up the pleasure and 

 success of such a trip. Luckily fair weather 

 can be counted on with a good deal of cer- 

 tainty in late spring and throughout most of 

 the summer and fall OK the northern cattle 

 plains. The storms that do take place, 

 though very violent, do not last long. 



Every now and then, however, there will 

 be in the fall a three-days' storm in which it 



