under-snow

Updated: May 17, 2025

All other matters were quite subsidiary to his one chief object. Once out in the open, the horses settled down into their long-distance stride. Here the trail was not so good as in the precincts of the village. The snow was deeper and softer. Now and then the horses' hoofs would break through the frozen crust and sink well above the fetlocks into the under-snow.

Ridgwell Cullum - The Hound From The North