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He rolled the green hide into a pack, which he lashed tightly with some thongs, and once more using his belt as a pack-strap, which he rested on the top of his head, he managed to get under the weight of the green hide, and started off at a half trot, following the nearest valley down to the river where their camp was pitched.
"I rather reckon I owe you my life and something else besides" the Colonel laid one hand on the thin shoulder where the pack-strap pressed, and closed the other hand tight over his pardner's right "and I hadn't meant even to thank you neither." "Don't, for the Lord's sake, don't!" said the younger, and neither dared look at the other. A scratching on the canvas, the Northern knock at the door.
This was done without any pack-strap but simply shifting the load from one shoulder to the other, betimes. The next day she shouldered fifty pounds of flour and some other groceries, and bore them home before nightfall. Uncle Jimmy Crawford, in his seventy-second year came to join a party of us on a bear hunt.
The stench overpowered him, making him deadly sick, and as in a nightmare he scrambled out. Half-way up, he recollected Bondell's gripsack. It had fallen into the hole with him; the pack-strap had evidently broken, and he had forgotten it. Back he went into the pestilential charnel-pit, where he crawled around on hands and knees and groped for half an hour.
And all the morning as I came tramping along the fine country roads with my pack-strap resting warmly on my shoulder, and a song in my throat just nameless words to a nameless tune and all the birds singing, and all the brooks bright under their little bridges, I knew that I must soon step aside and put down, if I could, some faint impression of the feeling of this time and place.
And just as he got to it the wolves emerged from cover, and darted out upon the shining level. "Looks like they really meant it!" growled the big woodsman, loosing his pack-strap, and setting his jaws for a fight.
Lines formed in his face, and in those lines were the travail of the North, the bite of the frost, all that he had achieved and suffered the long, unending weeks of trail, the bleak tundra shore of Point Barrow, the smashing ice-jam of the Yukon, the battles with animals and men, the lean-dragged days of famine, the long months of stinging hell among the mosquitoes of the Koyokuk, the toil of pick and shovel, the scars and mars of pack-strap and tump-line, the straight meat diet with the dogs, and all the long procession of twenty full years of toil and sweat and endeavor.
Maybe he'll say carelessly that he has a little blood on his shirt, which ought to be washed off, or maybe he'll say that if any one were walking a couple of miles down the river they might see a blazed trail out toward the hills. Then his wife will smile and hurry to put on the kettles. If it isn't too far, she'll take her pack-strap then and start out to bring in some of the meat.
Immediately the meal was wolfed down the three partners took their empty pack-straps and headed down trail to where the remainder of their outfit lay at the last camp a mile away. And old Tarwater became busy. He washed the dishes, foraged dry wood, mended a broken pack-strap, put an edge on the butcher-knife and camp-axe, and repacked the picks and shovels into a more carryable parcel.
You come on with me, and we'll make it through mebbe. "'No, I says; 'here I sticks. "I made up a pack-strap out of my extry overhalls while he got grub together, to start south through one hundred miles of the ruggedest and barrenest country that was ever left unfinished. "Next noon I was parching some coffee-beans in the frying-pan, when I heard hoofs down the gully back of me.
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