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Show AND A RIDE IN A SNOW- STORM. 69 in the Far West discard luxury. If one desires to sleep under a roof, he can be accommodated at any of the stations or ranches ; but usually travellers sleep, in or under their wagons except in very severe weather. As an example of the accommodations to be had, I will describe what was furnished our party on the trip just re ferred to. We drove one day over fifty miles of the one hundred and twenty- five, to reach a place that was con sidered a very desirable one to stop at over night. We reached the station just at dark, and were tired enough to content ourselves with whatever might offer. I introduced myself to the keeper and made known our wishes, when he promised to do the best he could for us. We soon dis covered that the " best," in the way of accommodations, was very limited, and there was not much danger of any ill-feeling growing out of a selection of rooms, for there were but two in the house, a chamber and a room of a very general character. We had all, long before, lost fastidious ness about such things, and made the best of what offered. The ladies were given the chamber, or rather a share with others of their sex already at the station. I have heard of tenement- houses in New York, where several families occupied one large room, and the space allowed for each marked off with chalk on the floor j but on the night referred to, there was not space enough between the pallets for a chalk- mark. Before the last could be spread, the occupants of the room for the night had to collect inside, for there was not space enough left for the door to open. In the general room adjoining, the gentlemen were allowed the soft side of some cotton- wood boards that com posed the floor, together with a few blankets and a buffalo robe, while the proprietor packed himself away in the bed of a wagon back of the house. Fatigue is a most excellent soporific, and in the condition we were half an hour after lying down, so far as comfort was concerned, we may as well have been where we were, as between immaculate linen sheets on a fine hair mattress. Such is the way travellers fare in a new country \ but at |