Breaking the Prairie 



some two years of wilderness travel, and making 

 something out of a good stock of valuable furs. 

 But such experiences are not uncommon in the 

 Great Lone Land. 



One of us usually went once a week for the 

 mail, taking any letters we had for post at the 

 same time. We had been in the habit of riding 

 Nancy, but as we were expecting a foal soon 

 from her, we had given up riding her, and so 

 had to walk, and as the distance was four miles, 

 it took quite a little of our valuable time. 



The mail is, however, an important element 

 in the settler's life, as by this means he keeps 

 in touch with the great world. Letters and 



parcels arrived and were despatched from K 



twice weekly, and it was interesting, if one hap- 

 pened to be there about the time of the mailman's 

 arrival, to see folk from the surrounding district 

 waiting patiently for the sorting of the often 

 voluminous mail matter, which includes all news- 

 papers that reach the district. 



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