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Updated: May 12, 2025
The weather was growing steadily colder and with each degree of fall in the thermometer the trail became easier. "Mushing at fifty below zero is all right when it is all right," explained Holt in the words of the old prospector. "But when it isn't right it's hell." "It is not fifty below yet, is it?" "Nope. But she's on the way. When your breath makes a kinder crackling noise she's fifty."
The camp of Two Cabins, he was also to learn, had been made the previous fall by a dozen men who arrived in half as many poling- boats loaded with provisions. Here they had found the blind trapper, on the site of Two Cabins, and about his cabin they had built their own. Later arrivals, mushing up the ice with dog-teams, had tripled the population.
But he laughed at her, and falling into one of his most brilliant moods, tried to entertain her. Her interest was hard to hold to-day. Her mind kept dwelling on Bill, mushing on through the softening snow, and her eyes kept seeking the window. She cooked lunch and burned every dish. Then, no longer able to deny her own fears, she ventured out in the snow to test its crust.
To be sure the rising curves were made in sudden spurts and jerks, but his lack of skill was reinforced by a tireless vigilance gathered through breaking days of driving and mushing over hazardous trails. And he had made an early start; few wayfarers were yet astir.
"I should think she would get sick of all that mushing," said Adam when he repeated these things. "She's not like us," said Kate. "She'll take all she can get, and call for more. She's a long time coming; but I'm glad she's well and happy." "Buncombe!" said Adam. "She isn't so very well.
Of course all three became "tangled in the riggin'," and the sled slipped up and over them. The Woman, thinking the dogs were hurt, gave a frightened scream, Ben was nearly thrown out by the sudden jolt, and "Scotty " yes, "Scotty" said something short and forceful, which was most rare; though swearing much or little seems almost as invariable a part of dog mushing as it is of mule driving.
The Glacier is moved forward by the compressed air which gets into the crevices behind the glaciers when it is split open by frost then it freezes again and explodes which moves the great mountain into the river. The Glaciers not only furnish the water supply for the world but also keep it fresh. The term Mushing has been used in the book that means to walk.
He was in a stress of furious emotion, and until he had worked off the edge of it by hard mushing, the cramped civilization of the town stifled him. Hours later he strode into the office of the company. He was dust-stained and splashed with mud. Fifteen miles of stiff heel-and-toe walking had been flung behind him.
The Boy had shut his eyes at first at the sight of their red tracks in the snow. He hardly noticed them now. An hour or so later: "Better men than we," says the Colonel significantly, "have had to put their feelings in their pockets." As if he found the observation distinctly discouraging, Nig at this moment sat down in the melting snow, and no amount of "mushing" moved him.
Now that he had given up finding the claim for this season, at least, and perhaps forever one way was as good as another. And he remembered that an old caribou trail lay just beyond the stream on the steep hillside. Bill led the way, mushing quietly an swiftly, and Virginia sped after him.
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