Three Vassar girls in Switzerland . ocket, ando-nawed it ravenously. A little farther on, they came to a broken branch of a pine-treewhich had been carriedby the moving ice fromfar up the mountain. Itwas too good an oppor-tunity to be lost; andthe Judge cut up thebranch with his greatjack - knife, and soonkindled a little is somethinglike, at last, he saidto Nikolas, as he de-lightedly warmed hishands over the blaze. Now, if we only hadsome coffee! However, we can heat the milk, and we can roastthe hare. They enjoyed their picnic keenly, eating only a partof the hare, and wrapping up
Three Vassar girls in Switzerland . ocket, ando-nawed it ravenously. A little farther on, they came to a broken branch of a pine-treewhich had been carriedby the moving ice fromfar up the mountain. Itwas too good an oppor-tunity to be lost; andthe Judge cut up thebranch with his greatjack - knife, and soonkindled a little is somethinglike, at last, he saidto Nikolas, as he de-lightedly warmed hishands over the blaze. Now, if we only hadsome coffee! However, we can heat the milk, and we can roastthe hare. They enjoyed their picnic keenly, eating only a partof the hare, and wrapping up the remainder for their the meal they proceeded on their way, crossing the remainderof the glacier in a short time, and striking up a long couloir or gullybetween the slopes on the other side. It was shaded by high cliffs,and paved with smooth, hard snow, easy to walk upon. The Judgecould not see the cabin; but he doubted not that this was the regularway, and that a sudden turn would bring them to it. He trudged on. THE REAL THING AT LAST. LIFE AT THE ALM. 157 gleefully, and, ignorant of the danger which he incurred, began tosin^ Marching throuo-h Georgia. The cliffs echoed the strainsresoundingly, until it almost seemed as if a small portion of Shermansarmy was tramping up the white road. Suddenly there was a reportlike that of a pistol; then the Judge felt the sheet of snow on whichhe stood sliding under him, slowly at first, but with increasing shrieked aloud, An avalanche ! Swifter and swifter, like the rush of a toboggan, the cake of snowon which they stood sped onward. Paralyzed with terror, theywatched the front edge of this cake crumbling and breaking intofine spray as they drove onward. Would the cake last until theyreached the glacier at the foot of the couloir ? the Judge wondered,when suddenly a new danger loomed ahead. Right before them,the couloir was divided by a crag: one branch — the one up whichthey had come — leading down
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