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how long the pain and anguish have lasted. At the 

 first shock of anything of the kind the instinct of a 

 man in pain is to creep away like an animal and hug 

 his wounds in silence. The woman who attempts to 

 offer sympathy at the first onslaught of the anguish 

 which is sufficient to wring a man's brow, stands a 

 very good chance of hearing sotto voce, of course 

 desires expressed that some beneficent being or other 

 would take her away and wring the ministering 

 angel's neck ! 



Very rude, but my advice to ministering angels 

 is, don't commence to minister until the psycholo- 

 gical moment. Then bring up the sympathy in cart- 

 loads, and you cannot overdo it. 



The big romantic murderer helped to carry the 

 fallen Leader to the Druidic cottage, and most unlike 

 a murderer I have really very little experience of 

 the genus, this was the first murderer I have met in 

 society helped to ascertain the damage. He diag- 

 nosed the case as a sprained ankle, and put his 

 country seat at the Leader's disposal. 



Steve went back to camp with orders to bring up 

 my tent and some stores to this roof of the world, 

 where we had to sojourn awhile whether we would or 

 no, as the Leader could not put his foot to the 

 ground. 



It was a land flowing with milk and honey for 

 our men. This spirit of the mountain had but to 

 wave his wand, and lo ! a sheep, ram, or ewe, it 

 mattered not, fell before it. 



I made some bread from hops, and cooked the 

 dough in the ground in a tin pan, with glowing wood 



