The edifice also underwent such repairs as served to fence out, as much as possible, the winds and snows of a severe winter--a winter which every one dreads the approach of, and the severity of which was perhaps magnified in proportion as it was unknown.
[Footnote 17: For the property thus taken possession of, the United States Government, through the Quartermaster's Department, paid the claimant the just and full amount awarded by appraisers.] _11th_.

What my eyes have seen and my ears have heard, I must believe; and what is their testimony respecting the condition of the Indian on the frontiers?
He is not, like Falstaff's men, "food for powder," but he is food for whisky.

Whisky is the great means of drawing from him his furs and skins.

To obtain it, he makes a beast of himself, and allows his family to go hungry and half naked.

And how feeble is the force of law, where all are leagued in the golden bonds of interest to break it! He is indeed "Like some neglected shrub at random cast That shades the steep and sighs at every blast." _12th_.