FIELD MICE 



AMONG the most pleasant and helpful 

 memories of my childhood are the 

 thoughts gained from association with a 

 dear, little eastern lady. She was a distant relative 

 of my mother. During a tour of the great west, 

 fortunately for me, she spent a summer and fall at 

 our humble plains home. When a young woman 

 she had not been what is commonly regarded 

 as good-looking; but as time passed such was 

 the love and harmony of her life that she came 

 to be a very beautiful old lady. And most 

 marked of all she had that greater, more po- 

 tent beauty of character. It was during the 

 later years of her life that she made us the mem- 

 orable visit and by her sweet influence, of which 

 I was at that time quite unconscious, rolled into 

 my life some of the foundation-stones of unde- 



