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Updated: May 22, 2025
But as Pierre thrust his nose into the depths of the cask he understood the reason of its safety. "Whew! Even a porkypine wouldn't touch that! Never mind. Reckon our boots'll need greasing after that ducking, or mine will, and it'll answer. Anything under the shed?" "Don't see anything. Wait. Yes, I do. A canvas bag hung up high.
'Well, we're going to get out of it, and soon too. The gully seems getting wider, and I can see a bit of open country through the trees. 'Thank God for that! says Jim. 'My boots'll part company soon, and the poor devils of calves won't have any hoofs either, if there's much more of this. 'They're drawing faster now. The leading cattle are beginning to run. We're at the end of the drive.
There, he whispered, as he handed me the money, 'take thet! An' don't ye never tell 'at I g'in it t' ye. I could not speak for a little while, as I took the money, for thinking of the many, many things this grand old man had done for me. 'Do ye think these boots'll do? he asked, as he held up to the light the pair he had taken off in the evening. 'They look all right, I said.
Never had Charley experienced such cold as that which met him when he and Toby left their sleeping bags the next morning. The air was marvelously clear and transparent. The stars shone with unusual brilliancy, and seemed very near the earth. Frost prisms on the snow sparkled and glinted in the starlight. "Our skin boots'll be freezin' stiff as sticks," remarked Toby.
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