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Rh did not, they discarded their beaux and decided on not going. One lady in particular, who was very gay, I usually dressed late, and I went to her at ten o'clock, and she began to regret that she had discarded her beau, as she could not now go to the party. I told her I would take her. She said it was so slippery she was afraid to walk, and her coachman was, away. She had never walked to a party and did not know what to do. I told her if she would not fall I would would not; and away we both started, in spite of the sleet and rain. I never saw such a rainy, sleety evening in my life, but we got there safely, when I gave her up to her friends and beaux, and she enjoyed herself just as much as if she had gone in her carriage.

I can not refrain from telling you a circumstance that occurred with some young ladies, as young ladies like their fun as well as those little boys I have mentioned enjoyed their sled rides. I was crossing the Alleghany mountains, in company with some young ladies, their fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters; the party was so numerous they had chartered a stage. At night we stopped at a house on the mountains where travelers usually stopped, and this night the house happened to be full. The most mischievous of these young ladies was an heiress. When the travelers' boots were put outside their doors to be cleaned, this young lady changed them. She would take a large boot from one door and put a small one with it, and so on, all over the house; then she made me get her some dough and she put that in the toes of some of the boots. In the morning when the horns were blowing for the up and down passengers, they would rush out already dressed and 22