\ ‘'5 maelstrom of Ifew York. our ranch became a favorite with Calgary folk,
Al; : motoring to Banff. xiiaza: They were always dropping in on us. I had“much“*&db 
V  ‘I indeed to peep my cock in good humor or q Sunday. flmgnty..oz-~tielArt3r-«.peopJ.e_‘;q_;g.___‘
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! if! And in fact it was pleasnt to have them come. J They brought a. whiff from the   
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  city with them. of course, I knew tIati&3§{t%f them ca.me_{‘}r/gchance on being   
  invited to a good ranch dimer, the loan of a horse, the  brook trout   .;
‘  I the two rivers andthe streams, and after September the game in the woods. §_,\‘T-\
5 I  There were partridge, prairie chicken, mallard ducks (on the ponds) and all 1dndsV"~;V,"‘;~.:‘\ 
9  of small game, and later in the season came down from the hills the bigger game.  
 lave had young does spring right in w: front of my horse when I have been 
 ‘ riding over our ranch, and I've kept it secret tooo because I did'nt wantx the men  ."  X5}
3   to go after the lovely things. . 
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.  » The approach of  :»:inter., and :tnePA1epa:;;toi:e_ r _‘  
<4 i I for school   ;~_u«.\(,» {E 
 melancholkv,   my duties were so many on I’  .__.—M
 the ranch; there was always so much doing and so many distraetionssgnxemzicnx 1;’
 ' N pt’ venpiiigf I had wa.nted to I would not have found. the time to write;/_@f’ is ’§.‘;\,,__‘a ~.\
I z  ex Vim went "on strike". I said to my husband. / \_ V/.‘:~, ,_ f
‘*«a,:{.: I "I'm going to the city. I won't put in another winter on the ranch." -\':\,
 I should mention that he loved the life in all of its phases. a  5
 iien do. You see they are out in the open all the time, but in winter e.lv.'oznan 
 x I L is more or less kept to the house on e. ranch. f course, in Alberta. there‘a1'e often ‘R
   Ghinooka ——...v.~a.rm winds from the Japanese current that sweep over an ice bound 
 K;  lend and traneofrm it in no time into wonderiul springlike weather. one walcee W 
  4' Roi‘ a morning in midwinter, to see the land stripped of snow, springs running w\‘:.“
 everywhere, and the air as soft and balmy as June. Thats Alba:-ta: But eten
: ’  with these antidotes for the long spells of cold and the blizzards that shut Us
4 .\;‘;i3 in for days, I  the restless feeling that year tliat I zzanted to escape. It //
 was scme‘:hing the same feeling I had ezzpericnced in lfew York, zvlrzen I  a /
 ‘Q3 - J? lng to get away :/',‘‘*m;: 21')‘ enVi1’0:='.1e1;t and into a. new one‘ Ito M p y,,‘l‘~—\, ‘  p