ved at the Headquarters House he would have thought he
had found a home for lunatics and not a hotel for an honest traveler
who could pay his way.

During the blizzard also I drew up in black and white a programme for
each day which I decided I must follow out when the weather became
better; though I had lived up to most of it from the first. Thus it
was:

Five o'clock--Get up, start fire in hotel and make cup of coffee.

Five-thirty--Inspect fires in bank and three stores.

Six o'clock--Feed horses and cow and chickens, and milk cow.

Six-thirty--Get breakfast for self and Kaiser and Pawsy (which
included washing the dishes, a hard job).

Seven-thirty--Inspect depot fire and climb windmill tower and look
over country with glass.

Eight o'clock--Finish work at barn; and for two hours such
miscellaneous work as might be doing, as tunnels or other
fortifications.

Ten o'clock--Windmill mounting again; miscellaneous work for two
hours.

Noon--Dinner for family and work at barn.

One-thirty--Inspection of fires and windmill mounting; followed by
miscellaneous work.

Three o'clock--Windmill mounting; miscellaneous work.

Four-thirty--Final daylight inspection of country from windmill;
miscellaneous work.

Six o'clock--Supper and work at barn.

Eight o'clock--General inspection of fires and town, including
observation from windmill for lights or fires.

Nine o'clock--Bed.

This system I followed out pretty closely whenever the weather was at
all fair. When there was no miscellaneous work I would practise on the
skees, shoot at the target, or something of this sort. Quite often on
days when the weather would allow (though there were few enough of
them) I would go up around and beyond the Butte on a little hunt. I
got several jack-rabbits and three more wolves. One of the wolves I
left outside the shed, forgetting it. In the morning it was gone.
There were not many thefts, however, and the shed was not broken into
any more; though, to be sure, I had made the door twice as strong as
it was before, and kept everything about town carefully and strongly
locked, especially the buildings where the guns and ammunition were.

During the worst storms I used to sleep on the lounge in the hotel
office, but at other times I always retired to the other building and
took in the drawbridge. Two or three times, just for a change, I took
Kaiser and slept in the fire stronghold. Kaiser and Pawsy still
remained as much com