Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. IN the following pages I have tried to picture, from actual experience, something of the life in its early stages of the settler on the Canadian prairie. All the earlier chapters of the book, including the remarks to the reader which follow this note, were written prior to the fateful August 1914, when the writing was soon dropped as being inopportune.