The
Farmers Seem Much Depressed By The Magnitude And Persistency Of
The Grasshopper Pest Which Finds Their Fields In The Morning "As
The Garden Of Eden," And Leaves Them At Night "A Desolate
Wilderness."
It Was So Odd And Novel To Have A Beautiful Bed Room, Hot Water,
And Other Luxuries.
The snow began to fall in good earnest at
six in the evening, and fell all night, accompanied by intense
frost, so that in the morning there were eight inches of it
glittering in the sun.
Miss P. gave me a pair of men's socks to
draw on over my boots, and I set out tolerably early, and broke
my own way for two miles. Then a single wagon had passed, making
a legible track for thirty miles, otherwise the snow was
pathless. The sky was absolutely cloudless, and as I made the
long ascent of the Arkansas Divide, the mountains, gashed by deep
canyons, came sweeping down to the valley on my right, and on my
left the Foot Hills were crowned with colored fantastic rocks
like castles. Everything was buried under a glittering shroud of
snow. The babble of the streams was bound by fetters of ice. No
branches creaked in the still air. No birds sang. No one passed
or met me. There were no cabins near or far. The only sound was
the crunch of the snow under Birdie's feet. We came to a river
over which some logs were laid with some young trees across them.
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