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Updated: May 3, 2025
There was a rush after the glass window had been closed. Never had a prettier snow scene been exposed to view. The snow was still swirling down, while what had fallen was up level with the window. "It's a good four feet deep, already!" cried Dave. "And looks as though it would go on snowing for a week," added Tom Reade joyously. "Fellows," announced Dick, "we're surely snowbound.
Since there are few well enough to build, the little settlement, snowbound between the ocean and the forest, grows but slowly. Sometimes death comes twice and thrice in a day, and the whole scene is a funeral and the ocean one black grave. Yet they bear it all patiently, silently: it is the hand of the Lord.
It did seem absurd, in spite of the fact that they were snowbound in a "haunted house." The big automobile lamps glared brilliantly from the mantel, and Tom, with Nat, found another place to rest on the long, low bench that formed a really artistic seat at the foot of the broad stairway. "Many a gay fellow has rested here, between the dances, don't you think?" asked Nat.
You, as an army man, ought to know something of the history of poker in these United States. Listen, my friend. Do you recall a certain game played by a man higher in authority younger than he is to-day a game played upon a snowbound train in the North country? Do you remember what the stakes were then? Do you recall that that man later became a president of the United States? Come.
The winter work is cutting down the trees and getting them to the riverbank ready for the spring thaw, when they are gathered in rafts and floated down to a seaport. We went provided for six months' severe life in the snowbound forests. Almost every man, too, took his gun or rifle.
And what a freedom the city had! nothing snowbound here, but invitation, shops open, cars gliding, the millions transported back and forth, everything open and inviting. She was glad for her neat back room for gas-lights and running water for the comfort and ease of life.
I regret there was no impressionist artist with us to record the weird procession my guard made. When sheepskin coats were provided for my men for use in a cold, snowbound country, it is a real English touch that they should have been black in colour, making my men a perfect target both night and day.
Massive, silent, contemptuous, his small eyes under the wolfish skull cold and alight with a look that sent shuddering from him the timid, thus he had been in his hard-fought and hard-won supremacy, a great, mysterious beast brought full-grown from the snowbound wilderness of the forest one famine-time by old Aquamis and sold to Bois DesCaut for a tie of tobacco.
Getting snowbound in this wilderness doesn't make any hit with me." "There's only one thing to do," said Frank decidedly, "and that is to right about face and try to find the place where we turned off." "Swell chance," muttered Tom. "It's getting dark now by the minute, and it'll be as black as pitch in a little while."
"Come, come!" said Major Dale as quickly as he could command his voice. "Don't you know me? Look! I'm Dale of the Guards come to save you, Cap. We have no wish to frighten you!" "Save me!" hissed the old man. "Go away! I'm crazy crazy!" "Not a bit of it," answered the major, stepping nearer to the stove. "Come along. We are snowbound, and had to come in uninvited."
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