sound asleep, he had gone out again. When he returned at 7 o'clock we sat about the fire for 1½ hr before he made known his good fortune. Then he became quite excited and was beaming, as much as it is possible for his marble like face & beard, when I returned. We had breakfast and all went to the spot in the woods where the animals lay, to skin them & prepare them. It was a four hours job and I did not return till 3 P.M. The animals had almost finished shedding given us their short gray winter coats; this was Aug. 21. The Northwick shore already begun to shed or that there is very little time left in summer for a collector to obtain proper skins. The new coat has not come on till June 15 & begins to go by Sept to mid Aug, - only two months of purple hair. S.D. very carefully saved the stomach parts of the intestines. From this portion he makes a bag in which to carry milk or other liquids & the re- estines he inflates, dries & uses for containers of butter. The teatums he dries & sells also. Others sell to Chinese. Our big Chin, was greatly interested