ain-tops being haunted. I know Scafell Pike is, and I'm
the haunter. Wonder if there's any chance of anybody turning up? I've
a good mind to go on to the cairn and howl and wave my candle about for
a bit; it might fetch some one. The only thing is, it might frighten
them away. I'll try it, anyhow, and I hope whoever comes will have some
grub in his pocket and a pair of gloves.

1:30.--No go. Been howling like a hyena for half an hour till I've no
voice left, and I'm all over spots of wax with the waving of my candle.
Heard nothing but my own voice. Not an echo, or a dog barking, or
anything. The mist lifted a bit, but I don't suppose any one could see
the candle down at Wastdale. Ugh! ugh! Perhaps there'll be an article
in a scientific paper about a curious phenomenon on the top of Scafell
Pike. Wish I knew how to warm phenomenons! I've put on the spare shirt
over my coat, and stuffed my feet into my knapsack, and wrapped last
Friday's _Daily News_ round my body and legs. Oh-h-h! why _did_ I make
a beast of myself to those two dear Cambridge fellows? Think of them
now, with blankets tucked round their chins, and their noses in the
pillow, snoring away; and their coats and bags lying idle about in the
room. I do believe if I had their two suits on over my own I might keep
warm. Hullo, what's that!

Never got such a fright. Thought it was thunder, or an earthquake, or
the cairn coming down on the top of me, or something of that sort.
Turned out to be the _Daily News_ crackling under my clothes.
Everything's so quiet, it startles one to move a foot. I'll give it
up--I'll--there goes my last candle!

3:30.--Actually been asleep--at least, I don't know what's been going on
the last two hours. That _Daily News_ was rather a tip, after all. I
might have been frozen to death without it. Hurrah for the Radicals!
Rather crampy all the same about the joints, and must get up and shake
myself, or I shall be no good for the rest of the day. Ugh! What a
state my mother would be in if she heard that cough! I'm certain I
hadn't caught it before I went to sleep.

Just been up to the top and had a look round. Mist is nearly all away,
and there are some streaks in the sky that look like the beginning of
morning. May hold out, after all. Never know what you can do till you
try. I'll just put on my _Daily News_ again and wait here another half-
hour, and then try out again. Wish it was daylight. Mustn't go to