WE WALK ACROSS lor 
é 
Was you must put fifty pounds weight odd on vour back 
and with it waik a mile er two, sometimes on Brighton 
beach, and sometimes in a bog which takes you almost 
up to vour knees. 
When we stopped for luncheon at 3.30 P.M... we each 
ate a lunch biscuit spread over with Liebig’s Extract. 
and a raw rasher of bacon, and drank snow-water. We 
couldn't make a fire. and felt obliged to sive the methy- 
lated spirits 
Lying on my back. in a hali-sieepy state. aiter luncheon. 
T was much interested in watching the ways of a pair of 
on ne 
Trev were buliding a nest oct of sight under the over- 
hanging snow which formed the bank of a Uny stream. 
The hen worked exceedingly hard, exerting all her little 
energies to pull bres from the ground. The cock was 
a fraud. 
You know how some persons make 2 great show 
x at 
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of passing things te vou at lenemeon-time.  Actuaiiv 
ning——they let it ge. But eaca tme vou 
they do rot 
reach for the sais, Chey wave a nan after it as ene h 
amage wand. The cock snow-bunting had learned this 
tick well. Verv asstGuous. very fossy, Re accompanied 
ms wife up and cowr. He waited upon her while she 
hunted up ores: he dew back with her anc watched 
while she worked 2c the mest—a pertect anny Of 2 
descot lord. Ido not Seueve he gutnered a soitary thing 
himse!t: I never saw him do it 
