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Updated: June 10, 2025
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.
"Well, it wasn't me that went loadin' up at Anvik with fool thermometers and things." "Thermometer! Why, it doesn't weigh " "Weighs something, and it's something to pack; frozen half the time, too. And when it isn't, what's the good of havin' it hammered into us how near we are to freezin' to death." But it annoyed him to think how very little in argument a thermometer weighed against a rifle.
We was so busy tryin' to keep from freezin' to death that we never gave a thought to Indians, that is 'ceptin' one, the guide, Jim Palmer, who knowed them Cheyennes, an' who kept dodgin' about in the blizzard, facin' the icy blast an' the whirlin' snow, an' always lookin' an' listenin'. I owe my life to him, an' so does every other one of the hundred.
I urged them to turn in, too, as the berths were the only place where anything like warmth was to be found; but drowsiness had come on 'em, and, when that is the case, freezin' soon follows." "The three men in the cabin are past our assistance, being actually frozen into logs; but there must be several more of you.
Now you couldn't pay me to live at Schaefer's. I had to beg too long for it. Cincinnati! Why, its New-Year's Eve is about as lively as a real town's Monday morning. Oh no, you don't! Oh no!" "Come on to bed, Hanna. You'll catch cold. Your breath's freezin'." "I'm goin' away, for good that's where I'm goin'!"
"Well, this IS fine," he declared, "and it's what the boys want. But this fire is against orders, sir. I ought to have it put out." "You will have it put out over my dead body, sergeant major," cried the M. O. "And mine," added Barry. "By gad, we'll chance the zeps, sir," said the sergeant major. "This freezin' rain will kill more men than a bomb.
"No, I kin't onderstand nothin' 'bout it, only yer makin' a outrageous ole fool o' yerself, and freezin' us to death. Mr. Dolf, 'spozen we go in."
I thought of the rich man and Lazarus, only kinder turned round and freezin' instead of burnin'. I felt bad and queer. But anon he drew nigh the porch I wuz settin' on and looked up into my face with the same harrowin' statement, "Malviny is a-goin' to freeze to-night!" And I said, with goose pimples runnin' down my back most as bad as I mistrusted as Malviny had, "Who is Malviny?"
Whenever he thought of home a lump came into his throat, but he always swallowed it bravely and said to himself: "'Tis wrong now t' be grievin' when I has so much t' be thankful for. Bill'll be takin' th' silver fox an' other fur out, and when father sells un 'twill pay for Emily's goin' t' th' doctor. Th' Lard saved me from freezin', an' I'm well an' th' Injuns be wonderful good t' me.
When she returned with an armful of dry sticks, he repeated the sentiment still more testily, and added "If it wass not for Tuncan, I would have been at home this night in my warm bed, wi' a goot supper inside o' me, instead o' freezin' an' starvin' oot here on the plain among the snow. It's mischief that boy wass always after from the tay he wass born."
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