Excerpt from Comrades Two I must write things down, I simply must. Making a diary is a time-worn scheme, yet it is easy to see why people do it, for surely it is a simple way of relbving a surcharged heart or mind, or both, especially in this country, the very air of which dispels tranquillity and promotes in one a certain restless desire. But there one pauses. De sire for what? In a woman certainly not the desire to grow wheat or raise cattle, nor (the Saints be praised) do many of the women out here suffer from restlessness at all. Most of them are fine, sturdy, brave creatures who do what they have to do, eat when they ought to eat, and sleep sensibly when sleep-time comes. Good luck to them! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.