But Hubbard is a right peart little place, with a bank, two stores, three churches, an' nigh on to two hundred people.

Are you wrapped up well, Mr.Mason, 'cause it's goin' to be cold on the mountains ?" Dick wore heavy boots, and a long, heavy military coat which fell below his knees and which also had a high collar protecting his ears.

He was provided also with heavy buckskin gloves.

The sergeant was clad similarly.
"I think I'm clothed against any amount of cold," he replied.
"Well, you need to be," said Petty, "'cause the pass through which we're goin' is at least fifteen hundred feet above Townsville--that's our village--an' I reckon it's just 'bout as high over Hubbard.

Them fifteen hundred feet make a pow'ful difference in climate, as you'll soon find out.