A rush of frost, turned to vapor by the heat of the room, swirled about him to his knees and poured on across the floor, growing thinner and thinner, and perishing a dozen feet from the stove.

Taking the wisp broom from its nail inside the door, the newcomer brushed the snow from his moccasins and high German socks.

He would have appeared a large man had not a huge French-Canadian stepped up to him from the bar and gripped his hand.
"Hello, Daylight!" was his greeting.

"By Gar, you good for sore eyes!" "Hello, Louis, when did you-all blow in ?" returned the newcomer.

"Come up and have a drink and tell us all about Bone Creek.