thoroughly. but they have n® use for the climate. I think i teld you 
about the countrw ©n my return from taking then, ever there. It if? 
very dry and b cts very cold, at leant up compared ruth this country 
Wd have been having a very cold, snap here, and for two weeks the 
mercury was down te 22 te 28 every night. This is the coldest weath¬ 
er on the records el the Seattle Weather Bureau since its estab¬ 
lishment. At least during the month of becomber. The ground is fro¬ 
zen now about 4 ins. deep -ath a half inch of mud ®n top, the 
result of two lays of Warm weather. 
You get an idea of distances in this country when I tell 
you that the bays travelled 476 miles across the state from Pullman 
t© Seattle and then 100 more from there home. It is still 50 or 60 
miles west to the Coast. The railroads make quite a bid for the 
traffic and the Nor. Pac. and the Chicago, Milwaukee <k Puget Sound 
each send out a special. The N. P. sent out six cars with the added 
attraction of a boxcar with a piano and a graphephene. At Marshall 
near Spokane they hooked ©n another earfull from a college at Spcte 
kune heading for home ©n the Sound. Imagine the outfit if yeu can. 
Saturday night I met them at Ileodepcrt, and took them home in the 
wagon. The road was frozen hard and the Lake als© arid we had t© 
break a channel through the ice and it was 10 o'clock before we 
get the horses in the barn and sat down to supper. That through^we 
talked till 1. The beys have kept us supplied with wild ducks and 
last night we had some delicious fish, and we have had such a good 
time. We killed the fatted steer and were going t© have a turkey, 
but the beys voted for geese and b©th the turk and geese are still 
parading round the barnyard blissfully ignorant that the canvasbacks 
have saved their lives for the present. The Madame says, "bid you 
ever see such a house?" but we are having a good time and it only 
lasts till Friday and then I take them out again, and we will not 
see them till the middle of June. They turn ©ut a geod class of 
