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SUFFERING. 
had seen nothing of buffalo, either large or small, 
and the next day found them en route for home. 
Into the shades of forgetfulness are remanded 
all the hardships, annoyance and suffering of that 
journey home. They were all that the most 
vivid fancy could picture, as connected with such 
a trip over such a country, at the beginning of 
winter. It will be remembered that that season, 
never wholly absent from the range, is fully re- 
instated there by the first of October, the time at 
which our excursionists returned. If any one 
thinks that specimens of Natural History cost 
nothing beyond the courage to shoot them, we 
can only recommend them to try procuring deer 
and mountain buffalo, bear and elk, preparing 
their skins, and transporting them over the moun- 
tains, as the best method of correcting such an 
erroneous opinion. 
f N the autumn of 1875, soon after her return 
from the Park, her attention was called from 
collecting for the museum to its demands in 
another direction. Boulder was then a village 
of less than three thousand inhabitants ; its many 
tourists, not expecting anything of the kind worth 
seeing in so small a place, failed to visit it in any 
numbers ; and so, contrary to her hopes, she had 
been unable to make it meet the expenses of 
