felt-padded

Updated: May 12, 2025

November had arrived, bringing with it the first snow and turning the whole, great, already desolate country into a desert of white. It was cold now; the cook took on a new duty of the maintenance of hot pails of bran mash and salt water for the relief of frozen hands. Heavy gum-shoes, worn over lighter footgear and reaching with felt-padded thickness far toward the knee, encased the feet.

Courtney Ryley Cooper - The White Desert