We gave Rufus two or three cups of hot coffee, and in the course of an hour he was quite himself again.
We kept him at the camp until the afternoon, however, and then started him home, wrapped in a horse-blanket instead of his army overcoat.

He was none the worse for his misadventure, although he declared we tore off two inches of his skin! On Sunday the weather began to moderate, and the last four days of our ice-cutting were much more comfortable.

It had been a severe ordeal, however; the eighty-one dollars that we collected for it were but scanty recompense for the misery we had endured..