There was only frost and snow, and the wind that whirled it about the pines, and, until it froze up, we lived a good deal on salmon from the river.

They were dead when we got them, and some of them rotten." Miss Deringham shivered.

"And when the river froze ?" she said.
"Then," said Alton gravely, "there were days when we lived on nothing, and worked until we couldn't hold the pick to keep from thinking.
Still, we got a deer now and then, and we had a very little flour.

It was mouldy when we bought it, but we hadn't dollars enough for anything better.

Mrs.Jimmy got sick and thin, but she never grumbled, and was always waiting bright and smiling when we crawled back into the shanty.
Anyway, we found no silver that would pay for the getting, though we knew it was there." "How did you know that ?" said Miss Deringham.
"Well," said Alton, "a Siwash told us something.