Friday, November 20 -1914 Cloudy with snow & no wind. Today was by no means eventful x when June finally got me out of my bunk. This morning I was rather sorry to be alive in such a dark and cheerless world. But somewhere between my left banish and my right under sack I set eyes upon an splendid and wittle specimen of ducks whets's head. This man more dempeping over a nice hot stove x. Just to make sure I doing my duty by June's efforts, I went out and played with our usual visitors in numerous dips that insist on staying. I agree with Ride in the importance of eating not entirely to live but because it is a pleasant and sociable break in the best of days. We both took a walk this afternoon. It was so dark that I had to take a lantern over the ice just with me x. I must have covered 8 or ten miles as I went nearly to the head of the island. We had our usual wrestling matches, June with his Pychka and I with my various volumes x tonight we had quite a talk x As a rule we do not bother each other much with any kind of conver- sation; in this resure the change seemed quite in contrast with our usual quiet. We have burned way little coal this week. We hate to see it go fast as there is considerable difficulty in getting coal out.