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Updated: August 12, 2024
The child was crying, sobbing, and holding up her arms to Betsy. "Are you hurt, Molly?" "No. I fell into a big snow-bank, but I'm all wet and frozen and I want to get out! I want to get out!" Betsy held on to the birch-tree. Her head whirled. What SHOULD she do! "Look here, Molly," she called down, "I'm going to run back along to the right road and back to the house and get Uncle Henry.
Kinloch and her son in our story, it will be necessary to make the reader acquainted with some previous occurrences. Six years before this date, Mrs. Kinloch was the Widow Branning. Her husband's small estate had melted like a snow-bank in the liquidation of his debts.
She looked behind her at every step, picturing the snarling cat springing out from every shadow, starting upward from every drift and snow-bank. But she clutched her meat tight and struggled on up the slope. Her whole body was shaking; she closed her eyes, overcome with faintness. There was a faint wind stirring and it cut like a knife, probing through her garments where they were damp.
The night passed on and grew colder, and the wind came across the ice-blocked river with shriller, sharper blasts, but Guido did not hear it. "Chuckey" Martin, who blacked boots in front of the corner saloon in summer and swept out the bar-room in winter, came out through the family entrance and dumped a pan of hot ashes into the snow-bank, and then turned into the house with a shiver.
The poor boy looked down at his crippled, and, indeed, bleeding feet, and, as may well be supposed, hesitated to comply with the peremptory order. "Do you hear, sir?" exclaimed his master, seizing him by the collar, and pushing him out into the yard. Then catching him by one arm, he set him in the centre of the snow-bank, his naked feet and legs going down into it some twelve or eighteen inches.
"You get out of my way, or I'll kick you out, like I done at Bay City." In an instant two blows were exchanged. The first marked Silver Jack's bronze-red face just to the left of his white eyebrow. The second sent Richard Darrell gasping and sobbing into the snow-bank ten feet away. He arose with the blood streaming from beneath his mustache.
Then Uncle Wiggily and Grunter came out of the snow-bank and were safe, and Uncle Wiggily took Grunter home to the rabbit house to stay until Mother Goose came, some time afterward, to get the first little pig boy. "Thank you very much, Uncle Wiggily," said Mother Goose, "for being kind to one of my friends." "Pray don't mention it.
"Laura says she can read a menu card in a French restaurant more easily," chuckled Bess. "I wonder how their train is getting on?" "I'm so selfishly worried about our own train that I'm not thinking of them," admitted Nan. "There! we've started again." But the train puffed on for only a short distance and then "snubbed" its nose into another snow-bank.
"Here's what that cut in his arm means," shouted a miner who had struck a light on the trail; "there's a finger-mark, done in blood on the snow, by the side of the trail, an' a-pintin' right to that ledge; an' here's his shirt a-flappin' on a stick stuck in a snow-bank lookin' t'ward camp."
His exhausted dogs were already curling themselves up beneath a snow-bank, wisely snatching a moment's rest as soon as it was offered them. Careless of their welfare, leaving them as they were to tangle up their traces, he was commencing to ascend the mound towards the store.
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