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1911] but this can only be done by tying up one of his forelegs; when harnessed and after he has hopped along on three legs for a few paces, he is again allowed to use the fourth. He is going to be a trial, but he is a good strong pony and should do yeoman service.

Day is increasingly hopeful about the motors. He is an ingenious person and has been turning up new rollers out of a baulk of oak supplied by Meares, and with Simpson's small motor as a lathe. The motors may save the situation. I have been busy drawing up instructions and making arrangements for the ship, shore station, and sledge parties in the coming season. There is still much work to be done and much, far too much, writing before me.

Time simply flies and the sun steadily climbs the heavens. Breakfast, lunch, and supper are now all enjoyed by sunlight, whilst the night is no longer dark.

‘When they after their headstrong manner, conclude that it is their duty to rush on their journey all weathers;’—‘Pilgrim's Progress.’

‘Has any grasped the low grey mist which stands

Ghostlike at eve above the sheeted lands.’

A bad attack of integrity!!

Who is man and what his place,

Anxious asks the heart perplext.

In the recklessness of space,

Worlds with worlds thus intermixt,

What has he, this atom creature.

In the infinitude of nature?’

Author:Francis Turner Palgrave.

It is a good lesson—though it may be a hard one—for a man who