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the handling and care of horses; farm machinery; the difference 

 in climate of different parts of Idaho and Montana; his occasional 

 v/ork as a guide, which helps out with the hay ranch and furnishes 

 vacation as well — it's too high up to grow much else; the price of 

 hay and its variation ; and from all this they will gather a tale of 

 human interest, and a vivid picturing of the necessities and needs 

 of human life in the great West, impossible to realize when one 

 talks only of the cultured frills of life. 



" I haven't opened a book or felt any inclination to read since 

 I have been here. The man who can't think a thought or two for 

 himself in this soul-inspiring environment surely has a bum bean." 



The hunters returned after sundown with some mallards, 

 followed a few minutes later by Fred, leading a forsaken looking 

 and melancholy wreck of a horse, destined for bear bait at the 

 new camp. With a clear sunset, after a warm and cloudless day, 

 the evening was given over to packing for departure ; and bedtime 

 came with a moon a fortnight old in the sky in conjunction with 

 the evening star, and a cloudless and frosty night, with the wind 

 from the southeast. 



