. Wild life on the Rockies. r-cing, lonely cries; and more than once a reveriewas pleasantly changed by the whisper of a chick-adee in some near-by tree as a cold comradesnuggled up to it. Even during the worst ofnights, when I thought of my lot at all. I con-sidered it better than that of those who were sickin houses or asleep in the stuffy, deadly air of theslums. Believe me, t is something to be castFace to face with thine own self at last. Not all nights were spent outdoors. Many aroyal evening was passed in the cabin of a mineror a prospector, or by the fireside of a family whofor some re
. Wild life on the Rockies. r-cing, lonely cries; and more than once a reveriewas pleasantly changed by the whisper of a chick-adee in some near-by tree as a cold comradesnuggled up to it. Even during the worst ofnights, when I thought of my lot at all. I con-sidered it better than that of those who were sickin houses or asleep in the stuffy, deadly air of theslums. Believe me, t is something to be castFace to face with thine own self at last. Not all nights were spent outdoors. Many aroyal evening was passed in the cabin of a mineror a prospector, or by the fireside of a family whofor some reason had left the old home behind andsought seclusion in wild scenes, miles from neigh-bors. Among Colorados mountains there are anunusual number of strong characters who are try-ing again. They are strong because broken plans,lost fortunes, or shattered health elsewhere havenot ended their efforts or changed their are trying to restore health, some are tryingagain to prosper, others are just making a start in 6. o life, but there are a few who, far from the mad-ding crowd, are living happily the simple , hope, and repose enrich the lives ofthose who live among the crags and pines ofmountain fastnesses. Many a happy evening Ihave had with a family, or an old prospector, whogave me interesting scraps of autobiography alongwith a lodging for the night. The snow-fall on the mountains of Colorado isvery unevenly distributed, and is scattered throughseven months of the year. Two places only a fewmiles apart, and separated by a mountain-range,may have very different climates, and one of thesemay have twice as much snow-fall as the the middle of the upper slopes of the moun-tains the snow sometimes falls during sevenmonths of the year. At an altitude of eleventhousand feet the annual fall amounts to eight-een feet. This is several times the amount thatfalls at an altitude of six thousand feet. In a lo-cality near Crested Butte the annual fall is thir
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