E - - And I Spend Our Afternoon Cleaning Up The Tent.

_Wednesday_.

- A - - and I drive into Winnipeg. We have had various commissions to do, and A - - had to attend a meeting at the Club. Mr. W. H - - has most amiably put his house, consisting of two rooms and a kitchen below, at our disposal whenever we want to rest; so I spent my whole afternoon there, nominally reading the "St. James's Gazette," but, I fancy, indulging in "forty winks" whilst waiting for A - - . We afterward dined with the judge in his very nice pretty house called "The Willows," driving home later. The cold was so great that A - - , who had brought no great-coat, was forced to run behind the buggy some way to get warm and produce circulation. The prairie fires quite lovely, on all sides, quivering high flames for miles, and the night being dark, they looked very bright.

_Thursday_. - Was so tired after my day in town that I breakfasted in bed; disgraceful! By the time I get down the family have all dispersed to their various works. After dinner E - - and I drive a waggon over to the Boyd Farm to fetch oats for Mr. H - - . The students, who haven't much to do, are enlisted into the filling and loading of the sacks; rather glad, we fancy, of some occupation. On our return we found a friend of Mr. B - - 's, who, having heard of our proximity, he living at Headingley, has come over to dine and sleep.

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