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The Birch-bark Vessels.
Rolf was sore and stiff for a week afterward; so was Skookum.

There were times when Quonab was cold, moody, and silent for days.

Then some milder wind would blow in the region of his heart and the bleak ice surface melted into running rills of memory or kindly emanation.
Just before the buck adventure, there had been an unpleasant time of chill and aloofness.

It arose over little.