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and there are signs of a gale. The thermometer has 
been two degrees below zero for the entire twenty-fcjur 
hours. This is September with a vengeance! 
« September 22, Friday.—I am off for the walrus- 
grounds with our wild allies. It will be my sixth 
trip. I know the country and its landmarks now as 
well as any of them, and can name every rock and 
chasm and watercourse, in night or fog, just as I could 
the familiar spots about the dear Old Mills where I 
passed my childhood. 
“ The weather does not promise well; but the state 
of our larder makes the jaunt necessary.” 
SECTION OF WINTER APARTMENT, 
