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The temperature had risen and the air was dank and chilly. The men began to hitch up their horses. "Kind o' thawin' a little," said Uncle Hiram as he got into his sleigh and drove up to the door. "Come on, there. Stop yer cacklin' an' git into this sleigh," he shouted in great good humor to the women and children who stood on the porch. "It'll be snowin' like sixty 'fore we git home."
"It will take more than storms to turn me back," she answered. Sucatash nodded and turned again to look at the sky turning gray and gradually blackening above the dim line of the ridge. Even as they watched it, the sky seemed to descend upon the crest and to melt it. The outlines became vague, broken up, changed. "Snowing up there," he said. "By'n by, it'll be snowin' down here.
It's darker 'n a nigger's pocket, and blowin' and snowin' great guns besides. Jest you look out here." He rose, beckoned to Ralph, and then opened the outer door. He had to use considerable strength to do this, and a gust of wind and a small avalanche of snow roared in, and sent the lighter articles flying from the table. Elsie gave a little scream, and Mrs.
"It's snowin' and it's goin' to snow hard. The sooner we gets back to camp the better we'll be off." Bill swung the bag over his shoulder, when suddenly he stopped and exclaimed: "What's that?" Jimmy had sneezed, and again he sneezed. "Some sneak in that there tree!" and Bill with an oath dropped his bag and seized his rifle, which he had leaned against the tree in which Jimmy was perched.
The tall, bare walls of the big house, the high ceilings with their centerpieces of plaster fruits and flowers, the cold whiteness, closed her in. Having no one to talk to, she talked to herself: "It's snowin' hard out why! that was what Old Chris said the night before he went away."
But the beast did not venture close to the shelter, and while waiting for its appearance the youth dropped asleep again. By midnight the wind fell a little, and then it began to snow, and it was still snowing when John Barrow leaped up, pushed the blanket aside, and gazed out upon the river. "Hullo, we're in for it now!" he cried, and as the boys sat up, he added: "Snowin' mighty hard, too."
'It's too late you are already, says Micky, 'so come up behind me, for God's sake, says he, 'an' don't waste time; an' with that he brought the horse up beside the ditch, an' Jim Soolivan mounted up behind Micky, an' they rode off; an' tin good miles it was iv a road, an' at the other side iv Keeper intirely; an' it was snowin' so fast that the ould baste could hardly go an at all at all, an' the two bys an his back was jist like a snowball all as one, an' almost fruz an' smothered at the same time, your honour; an' they wor both mighty sorrowful intirely, an' their toes almost dhroppin' aff wid the could.
"That's the only drawback to this cave," said Slocum. "It will be all to the good when the winter settles in earnest, but it will be some bother while it's still snowin' an' thawin'." I told him that I agreed with him to such an extent that if I could locate the burro I'd rather risk gettin' back to humanity than to dyin' there of rheumatiz. I was wringin' wet through.
"A cool hundred, darlin'. Ingram the Aid Society, because it's Christmas, darlin'. They opened up a cool hundred! We we can light out To-morrow, darlin'. A cool hundred! Old Ingram, the old skinflint, he opened up like like a oyster. South, all of us, to-morrow, darlin'; it ain't nothing for me to get a job South. When I seen it was snowin' I'd 'a' killed somebody to get it.
When he was rested a little he arose, took his direction with the compass, and floundered on through the snow. "They's sure out somewhere lookin' for me," he thought, "but 'tis snowin' so hard they never will find me! I'll have to keep goin' till I finds camp. 'Tis strange now I'm not comin' to the brook, 'tis wonderful strange.
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