Thet's how I felt.

Well, just 'long 'bout daylight an outfit showed up.

With my eyes half froze over, an' ther storm blowin' the snow in my face, I could n't see much--nuthin' but outlines o' hosses an' men.

But thar was four o' 'em, an' a big fellow ahead breakin' trail.

Course I thought it was Le Fevre; I wa'n't lookin' fer no one else, an' soon as I dared, I let drive.