Show the old settler my dear san Jua ners all day long on that of december we urged cur ur herd and our horses on through the storm and when darkness settled down over the white hills there a dry thread in the rags that I 1 covered us but we found foun d a big dry cave and when we had stood I 1 for a while around a roaring fire and roasted our rude fare in the t coals coal we ate and lay down to I 1 sweet dreams next day in the clear weather after the storm we faced a penetrating wind w which h I 1 c h num numbed bed our fingers and turned burned cur ur faces but at night we found a dry cave in castle gulch and slept fine the cold weather the toil the simple diet was all so wholesome and natural that our ic action to it could be nothing but favorable and ws we felt like a t mi million lion on cow tank ridge we made our bed on a crusted snow drift and the wintry wind over our stiff tarp so thed us to sleep with a pleasing lullaby we fought our way through crusted and deepening snow to the base of the mountain and down through the cedars to snow flat where we spent the n night i g 0 ht under a big tree with more comfort than I 1 expect now in in a hotel S so 0 far as I 1 C could tell we were as healthy and as rugged as the coyotes that howled around us but when we got home and slept in the warm house w with I 1 t h doors and windows shutting the winter out from our bed and when we got stuffed with leal civilized foo food 3 we caught cold got the earache ear ache a bad cough and felt wretched as sin if I 1 lived the greater part of my childhood as the aiutes lived I 1 would not find it so hard to reconcile to the costly notions of what is called civilized living I 1 could thrive on raw buil berries on beef half roasted on a spit over a smoky fired fire coarse bread baked in the ashes potatoes that I 1 raked out with a stick from the coals and beans boiled in a black coffee pot and my digestion was of the ostrich variety but when I 1 continued Continue ct on page 8 the old settler continued iron t pal pac 1 fed on the soft stuff that was nicely sweetened properly s sea ea sonea carefully caie fully milled thoroughly cooked scientifically refined ana ar 1 l 1 fully predigested I 1 was never myself i again till I 1 got back to the bull berries the generous yards of and a string f other good things chosa very name would shock the f fastidious epi cures who live to cat why I 1 insist that men were intended to live th their air lives c out u t doors and keep near to the e earth ar th to lo eat their food as nearly as possible in the way that nure prepared it for them and by all means night and day to keep their lungs supplied liol with the abundance of fresh air which the creator has so generously provided instead of housing up to poison themselves by breathing the same air till it becomes stifling ALBERT R LYMAN |