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Updated: May 20, 2025
Stories crisp as snow-crust and edged with aptness, happy memories and reminiscences of frolic and fun, sly hits and keen retorts, jokes and laughter, rollicked around the table and shook it with mirthful explosions. The merriment was at its height when a loud summons sounded upon the door.
The rolling up of the heavens as a scroll, the crash of Doom anything, anything! But no, nothing moved; the Silence crowded in, and the Fear of the North laid icy fingers on his heart. Once, like another Crusoe, by the edge of the river he came upon a track the faint tracery of a snowshoe rabbit on the delicate snow-crust. It was a revelation. There was life in the Northland.
Once or twice he paused and remained a moment in a listening attitude. Boone rose softly and whispered the rest to follow. He was promptly obeyed by all except Joe. "Come, sir! prepare your musket to fire," said Boone, stooping down to Joe, who still remained apparently frozen to the snow-crust. "Oh! I'm so sick!" replied Joe.
The great length of a bear's body, moreover, and the vast stretch between his fore and hind legs give him an additional advantage enabling him to distribute his weight over a large surface and this is why he can shuffle over ice or snow-crust, that may be too weak to carry a human being.
When Miss Carteret let herself out of the rear door, Jastrow disappeared in the opposite direction, passing through the forward vestibule and dropping cat-like from the step to inch his way silently over the treacherous snow-crust to a convenient spying place at the other end of the car.
She rose as softly as possible and sprang upon the snow. The Indians, as she feared, instantly felt the diminution of weight, and halted so abruptly that every one of them was prostrated on the slippery snow-crust. Mary endeavoured to take advantage of this occurrence, and, springing quickly to her feet, fled rapidly in the opposite direction.
"When they came back over the same trail a year later, they were frightened to see what steeps and crevices they had covered. But for that first trip the snow-crust held firm while they made straight for the gap in the peaks through which the wild goose had disappeared. They traveled as long as the light lasted, though their hearts sobbed and shook with the thin air and the cold.
And you have pleasanter memories of going after pond-lilies, of angling for horn-pouts, that queer bat among the fishes, of nutting, of walking over the creaking snow-crust in winter, when the warm breath of every household was curling up silently in the keen blue air.
The cold, which had retreated for a time, returned, augmented. As though it were a live thing moving about, its coming could be heard in the almost indistinguishable crackling of the snow-crust. As beneath a crushing weight, the ice of the great river boomed and crackled from its touch. Wide-eyed but impassive, the man watched and listened. Scarcely a muscle of his body moved.
"Because there's nothing the men can do for the present, and I wanted all hands to have a chance to get over their disappointment. Jim, this snow-crust will bear the weight of a pony, won't it?" "Why?" "I must get to Dugout City." "For what?" "We haven't a big enough ore dump on which to borrow any money. but I've an idea I can sell this nugget for enough to get another good stock of dynamite."
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