The Mess-Chest, And Faye's Camp Bedding Are Always In Readiness For Ordinary Occasions, But For A Camp Of Several Months In This Climate, Where It Can Be Really Hot One Day And Freezing Cold The Next, It Was Necessary To Add Many More Things.

Just how I managed to accomplish so much in so short a time I do not know, but I do know that I was up and packing every precious minute the night before we came away, and the night seemed very short too.

But everything was taken to the wagons in very good shape, and that repaid me for much of the hard work and great fatigue.

And I was tired - almost too tired to sit up, but at eight o'clock I got in an ambulance and came nearly forty miles that one day! Major Stokes and Captain Martin had been on the board of survey, and as they were starting on the return trip to Helena, I came over with them, which not only got me here one day in advance of the company, but saved Faye the trouble of providing for me in camp on the march from Camp Baker. We left the post just as the troops were starting out. Faye was riding Bettie and Cagey was on Pete.

I brought Billie, of course, and at Canon Ferry I lost that squirrel! After supper I went directly to my room to give him a little run and to rest a little myself, but before opening his box I looked about for places where he might escape, and seeing a big crack under one of the doors, covered it with Faye's military cape, thinking, as I did so, that it would be impossible for a squirrel to crawl through such a narrow place.

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