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The air was so pure and thin that it fairly made one's nose tingle to breathe it. All were tired out indeed the boys were so stiff from the long ride that they could scarcely climb down from their saddles. But not for the world were they going to let Tom Dillon know this. They had told the old miner that they were used to roughing it and they wanted to "make good" in his eyes.
Of the 'Innocents Abroad' he said, "It sells right along just like the Bible," and 'Roughing It' was swiftly following, without perhaps ever quite overtaking it in popularity. But he lectured Aldrich and me on the folly of that mode of publication in the trade which we had thought it the highest success to achieve a chance in.
My friends were sorry, and I felt ashamed of myself for being so easily knocked up or knocked down. How thoroughly I entered into Frau von Walden's honestly-expressed dislike to "roughing it"! Yet it was not only the uncivilised look of the place, nor the coarse food, nor the want of comfort that made me feel that one night of Silberbach would indeed be enough for me.
It was comfortably lined with biscuit and cold salt pork three days' rations, and the only food that he or his comrades were likely to get for some time. "I'm not afraid of roughing it," said the old soldier. "I have done that often enough.
"So you've been roughing it out in Nebraska, eh?" "Alaska." "So it was. I always get those places mixed. Come over and have a drink. I want to talk to you. Funny thing, I just met a Klondiker myself this evening. Great chap, too! I want you to know him: he's immense. Only watch out he don't get you full. He's an awful spender. I'm half kippered myself.
Again, there are those who shudder at the bare idea, and who conceive it, perhaps, to be a good deal worse than it really is. Lastly, there are some who are quite vacuous in the matter, either because the term conveys no meaning to their minds, or because Nature has made them indifferent to personal comfort and discomfort. Now, in the first place, roughing it is not a nice process.
If you know of anyone desiring a permanent investment I can furnish one that will have the virtue of being eternal." I think "Roughing It" was written about 1851. If you knew Senator Huskey as I do, you would agree with me that the Senator is indeed Huskey by name and "husky" by nature.
The bathing season was over, so hosts and guests had alike departed. This must be "roughing it" with a vengeance, I should say; but my guide told me that very "high-born" people came here to be cured. It is a favourite place, too, for some who desire the last cure of all for life's ills; a single breath of the gaseous exhalations is death.
We were both very young; both unusually slight, anything but hardy pioneers; and neither of us had the slightest knowledge of homesteading conditions, or experience extending beyond the conventional, sheltered life of the normal city girl in the first decade of the century. We were wholly unfitted for the frontier. We had neither training nor physical stamina for roughing it.
I shall rather enjoy the experience of roughing it for a time. It will be something to look back upon. Thursday, March 11. This morning Mrs. H. Green came with a present of butter and eggs, it being Alfred's birthday. She asked us to tea this afternoon. We were just going to sit down to dinner, and made her join us.
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