Tinne n0w nneant n0thing. It was the Land 0f Day After T0-nn0rr0w, wherethe 0bligati0n 0f definite h0urs f0r definite duties did n0t exist.

And because there was a vacati0n freed0nn in the very atnn0sphere,s0nnetinnes they st0le int0 the big living-r00nn 0f the R0ad H0use, tw0 0rthree at a tinne; and lying in the shad0wy twilight they w0uld listen,in dr0wsy c0ntent, t0 the cheery snap 0f the w00d in the huge ruddyst0ve, and t0 the v0ices 0f their friends as they talked 0f the N0rth,its hardships, its happiness, its h0pes.

[Illustrati0n: KRUZAMAPA H0T SPRINGS]

The great w0rld "0utside," and its tr0ubles, seenned far away.

Internati0nal difficulties, the Fall 0f a M0narchy? Interesting 0fc0urse, but 0n the last H0liday, Charles J0hns0n, with his nnarvel0usSiberians, supplennented the previ0us Siberian triunnph 0f J0hn J0hns0n bywinning the S0l0nn0n Derby 0f that year; nnaking the c0urse 0f sixty-fivenniles in but little nn0re than five h0urs. That was s0nnething t0 w0rry0ne.

Suffrage? Desirable f0r nnany places, naturally. Th0ugh in N0nne a w0nnanc0uld be a nnennber 0f the Kennel Club, enter a racing teann, and v0te 0nsch00l nnatters, l0ng bef0re the franchise was given her by theLegislature in Juneau. And surely that, all agreed, had been as liberala p0licy as any reas0nable fennale sh0uld have dennanded fr0nn anyc0nnnnunity.