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He was quite sure now that they were even farther north than he had at first supposed, and that probably they would be snowed in all the winter in the valley, a condition to which the Indians were indifferent, as they had good shelter and plenty of food. They began to make snowshoes, but Will judged that they would be used for hunting rather than for travel.
But a new and extreme exasperation arose in the month of March, when the alternation of thaw and frost had covered the snow with a hard crust that rendered snowshoes unnecessary and made it easy to run anywhere and leave no track. They had gathered up a fisher and some martens before they reached the beaver pond.
"It looks to me," said Edmund, "as if the rest of the campaign wouldn't interest us very much." On the 10th of March we set forth on snowshoes and travelled through the thick forest. That night we encamped at a brook. The Rangers built shelters of boughs in a short time.
They went hurrying through the snow with shouts and laughter; and if any forest animals were astir that day they must have been frightened by the noise the party made scrambling along on snowshoes. Not one of them but fell at times and the very "twistiest" kind of falls!
From a corner behind some fishing-rods she salvaged a pair of summer-dried snowshoes; they had facilitated many a previous hike in the winter woods with her man of a thousand adventures. She searched until she found the old army-haversack Duncan used as a game-bag. Its shoulder-straps were broken but a length of rope sufficed to bind it about her shoulders, after she had filled it with provisions.
Flaming Arrow said good-bye, and went off with the dead wild cat slung over his shoulder. "Isn't he just fine!" exclaimed Alice, as she watched him stalking over the drifts on his snowshoes. "I'm getting jealous!" laughed Paul, and there was more of meaning in his remark than his outward manner indicated. "Well, I do like him!" Alice went on. "He is so big and strong and manly.
We are in for weather of sorts, I fancy, but Astor M'Kree must get his letter first, even if we have to race for it!" she cried. "Let's race, then; the dog's are willing, and so am I," replied Phil, who was seated in the sledge among the packages, while Katherine travelled ahead on snowshoes,
Fidge had divested himself of his snowshoes and heavy Arctic outfit, and was eagerly chasing some gaudy butterflies which were flitting about amongst the bright tropical flowers, and the others, feeling the heat very oppressive, were glad to follow his example, and get rid of their cumbersome clothing.
Is this here the gal?" cried the other, in immense surprise. "I swanny!" "Yep. She's all right. I'll go back," said the rattlesnake man, without further ado, turning in his tracks. "Oh, sir!" cried Ruth. "I'm so much obliged to you." But the hermit slipped away on his snowshoes and in less than a minute was out of sight. Then Ruth looked around suddenly for Fred Hatfield.
Walking out upon the snow a little way, he halted, at a distance of perhaps thirty paces from the poachers. At the sound of his snowshoes the two men looked up scowling and apprehensive; and the kneeling one sprang to his feet. They wanted no witnesses of their illegal work. "Good morning," said the Boy politely.
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