The account he gave put an end to the hopes I had begun to entertain of being able to visit our friends at Chicago in the course of this winter.
We had, before the last heavy fall of snow, been forming plans to that effect.

Captain Harney had kindly commenced preparing some trains, or boxes placed on sledges, which it was thought would, when lined with buffalo-skins, furnish a very comfortable kind of vehicle for the journey; and I was still inclined to think a good, deep bed of snow over the whole country no great obstacle to a sleigh-ride.

The whole matter was, however, cut short by the commanding officer, who from the first had violently opposed the scheme, declaring that he would order the sentinels to fire on us if we attempted to leave the fort.

So, finding the majority against us, we were obliged to yield.
The arrival of sweet, lovely little Lizzie Twiggs, before January was quite past, was an event that shed light and joy in at least two dwellings.

It seemed as if she belonged to all of us, and as she increased in size and beauty it was hard to say who, among us all, was most proud of her.