Besides The Four
Yards Of Calico There Were Ten Of Bed-Ticking, Also Ten Of
American Cloth; And The Bill Was Six Dollars Seventy Cents, Nearly
Seven-And-Twenty Shillings.
Everything is equally dear, the demand
is so much greater than the supply.
Beef is tenpence to
thirteenpence a pound, mutton about the same, bacon tenpence, pork
tenpence, chickens four and twopence each. We use a good deal of
tinned corned beef; and very good it is, it makes into such
excellent hashes and curries and is so good for breakfast.
A - - also wants a pair of long porpoise-hide waterproof boots
sending out; they are quite an essential, as after the heavy rains
water stands inches deep in our yards, and he has so much walking
into the marshes. In the spring, when the snow has melted, the
"sloughs" or mudholes along all the tracks and across the prairie
are so deep that horses and waggons are repeatedly stuck in them,
and the men have to go in, often up to their waist, to help the
poor animals out. The only way sometimes to get waggons out is to
unhitch the horses, getting them on to firm ground, and by means
of a long chain or ropes fastened to the poles, pull the waggons
out which as a rule have previously had to be unloaded. The
clothes these men wear are indescribable. A - - at the present
moment is in a blue flannel shirt, a waistcoat, the back of which
we are always threatening to renew.
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