CICELY. (Concluded) ' You went back, I suppose.' ' Not a bit of it. 1 never went back all my life. We determined that I should go on first, leading the horse and carrying the wood shovels, and should shovel out a small clearing. Meantime Elizabeth was to open the boxes and prepare pakages of about half or three-quarters of a hundredweight, which we could carry. I got through with the horse, and completed my work. I cleared a space about twelve feet square under some large trees, throwing up a bank of snow all round it from within and without. Then I tied up my horse and went back. Eliza beth had worked nobly, and was ready with nearly forty packages. We were puzzled what to do with the child, but at length ar ranged that we should take alternate trips, with a couple of parcels hung by a strap over our shoulders. So my wife started next, and you can imagine my feelings when I saw the stout-hearted girl disappearing along the track the horse and I had made. Five miles out and five back, she was gone four hours and a half, but she came back laugh ing, She said I had provided a cold house for her. After a meal I set out, taking fod der and a tarpaulin for the beasts, and by the time I got back it was night. It took us three days to convey our goods and boxes, for we left nothing behind. I stripped the covering off the waggon, and drew it up for the winter as sheltered as possible. We piled up our casks and boxes in the square I had made. The horse lived at one end and we at the other. At the end of six weeks I had erected on that very spot a rough log hut, and that afterwards became the kitchen of my house. It was hard work I don't pretend to' deny, but it didn't kill us, and I sold that location twenty years after for 5000dols. Now there's a town on it and 50,000d01s wouldn't buy it.' ' But you were going to tell me about Cicely.' •Ah ! yes. I was forgetting her in talk ing about myself. Well, of course we and the Mashams became friends, that is we saw each other occasionally, and sometimes gave each other help. 