I think this snow is going to be about forty feet deep, and it will be hard for a column of three hundred men to proceed by means of tunnels." The mountaineer riding by the side of Colonel Winchester was looking eagerly, whenever a break in the clouds occurred.

At length, he asked him for the glasses again and, after looking intently, said: "Jest between the edges uv two clouds I caught a glimpse uv a man, an' he wuz wavin' a flag, which wuz a sheet from his own bed.

It would be Jake Hening, 'cause that wuz his place, an' he told me to go straight on to the cove, ez they wuz now expectin' us thar!" "Who is expecting us ?" "Friends uv ours.

People 'roun' here in the mountings who want to see you make hash uv them gorillers.

I reckon they're fixin' things to keep you warm.