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After all our hard travel, here we were on the bank of the stream again, with the inn beyond dimly outlined through the driving snow-fall.
Paynter's agent, Fortune gave Queed to hear a portion of his article on the Bavarians read aloud, and read with derisive laughter. The incident occurred on a street-car, which he had taken because of the heavy snow-fall: another illustration of the tiny instruments with which Providence works out its momentous designs.
One afternoon, late in the autumn, the judge left his court-room in Detroit and started for his house. He bought an evening paper as he boarded the street-car; and, as Fate would have it, the first thing that met his eye as he unfolded it was the forecast for upper Michigan: "Colder; slight snow-fall; light northerly winds."
Thousands were killed every day, and the exodus nevertheless continued. Like migrations were never seen either before or since, and this one must have been called for by an early and heavy snow-fall in the Great Khingan, which compelled the deer to make a desperate attempt at reaching the lowlands in the east of the Dousse mountains.
They set about clearing their banking ground about a half mile below the first dam; and during the six weeks before snow-fall cut three short roads of half a mile each. Approximately two million feet would be put in from these roads which could be extended in years to come while another million could be travoyed directly to the landing from its immediate vicinity. "We won't skid them," said Tim.
The snow-fall was deeper than in the lower valleys, and every step of the way was snow-shoe work. Furthermore, Smoke's captors, all young men, traveled light and fast; and he could not forbear the prick of pride in the knowledge that he easily kept up with them.
During that peculiarly bright and lovely summer we often ask each other, Could it have been true that no one knew one mountain from the other, and that hills had been apparently levelled and vallies filled up by the heaviest snow-fall ever known.
Anything was preferable to this, and it was with a feeling akin to relief that I added: "I might do so had I not noticed this afternoon that he had gone lame." "Better let de flour go, den, for de snow am too deep and de storm to heavy for you to tramp all de way to town and back again." "No; while I haven't much fear of our starving, yet, if the snow-fall continues, we shall be in a bad way.
On the way we noticed an abandoned Indian village, which had evidently not been occupied for some time. As we proceeded the storm increased, and the snow-fall became deeper and deeper, until finally our horses could not travel through it. In consequence we were compelled to give up further efforts to advance, and obliged to turn back to the abandoned village, where we encamped for the night.
The spear of the Valkyrie had fallen! "Bury me not when I am dead Lay me not down in a dusty bed; I could not bear the life down there, With the wet worms crawling about my hair!" Long hours passed, and the next day dawned, if the dim twilight that glimmered faintly across the Altenfjord could be called a dawn. The snow-fall had ceased, the wind had sunk there was a frost-bound, monotonous calm.
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