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The Subjugation of Hoag.
A feller as weeps for pity and never does a finger-tap to help is 'bout as much use as an overcoat on a drowning man.
-- Sayings of Si Sylvanne.
SOME remarkable changes of weather made some remarkable changes in their plan and saved their enemy from immediate molestation.

For two weeks it was a succession of thaws and there was much rain.

The lake was covered with six inches of water; the river had a current above the ice, that was rapidly eating, the latter away.

Everywhere there were slush and wet snow that put an end to travel and brought on the spring with a rush.
Each night there was, indeed, a trifling frost, but each day's sun seemed stronger, and broad, bare patches of ground appeared on all sunny slopes.
On the first crisp day the trappers set out to go the rounds, knowing full well that this was the end of the season.