The winter's experience satisfied me that the country that H--and I had found would not do for sheep,unless worked in connection with more that was clear of snow throughout the year.As soon,therefore,as I was convinced that the adjacent country was safe,I bought it,and settled upon it in good earnest,abandoning the V hut.I did so with some regret,for we had good fare enough in it,and I rather liked it;we had only stones for seats,but we made splendid fires,and got fresh and clean snow-grass to lie on,and dried the floor with wood-ashes.Then we confined the snow-grass within certain limits by means of a couple of poles laid upon the ground and fixed into their places with pegs;then we put up several slings to hang our saddle-bags,tea,sugar,salt,bundles,etc.;then we made a horse for the saddles--four riding-saddles and a pack-saddle--and underneath this went our tools at one end and our culinary utensils,limited but very effective,at the other.Having made it neat we kept it so,and of a night it wore an aspect of comfort quite domestic,even to the cat,which would come in through a hole left in the thatched door for her especial benefit,and purr a regular hurricane.We blessed her both by day and by night,for we saw no rats after she came;and great excitement prevailed when,three weeks after her arrival,she added a litter of kittens to our establishment.
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