wholly unprepared for flight, she was heavily stored
with pork and corn, while her other chambers had in
some of them heavy drifts of snow, and some only a few
men and women and hens.

Before Orcutt saw Haliburton's advice, he had sent us
24 and 25.

24. "We have established a Sandemanian church, and
Brannan preaches. My son Edward and Alice Whitman are to
be married this evening."

This despatch unfortunately did not reach Haliburton,
though I got it. So, all the happy pair received for our
wedding-present was the advice to look in the Cyclopaedia
at article Projectiles near the end.

25 was:--

"We shall act `As You Like It' after the wedding.
Dead-head tickets for all of the old set who will come."

Actually, in one week's reunion we had come to
joking.

The next night we got 26:

"Alice says she will not read the Cyclopaedia in the
honeymoon, but is much obliged to Mr. Haliburton for his
advice."