. Rod and gun. later feet became avery painful subject to all of fuel was thrown on the fire andlong poles were stuck into the snowbanks, reaching their lengths well outover the blaze. On these, mittens,moccasins, socks and duffles werehung, and carefully watched through-out the drying process to preventtheir scorching and subsequent loss. This was the hour in which tongueswere loosened, and the incidents ofthe days tramp were gone over inpantomine and jest. Not many dayslater the jests were turned to cursesand maledictions on the country, thesnowshoe, and the pitiless, experienc-ed a
. Rod and gun. later feet became avery painful subject to all of fuel was thrown on the fire andlong poles were stuck into the snowbanks, reaching their lengths well outover the blaze. On these, mittens,moccasins, socks and duffles werehung, and carefully watched through-out the drying process to preventtheir scorching and subsequent loss. This was the hour in which tongueswere loosened, and the incidents ofthe days tramp were gone over inpantomine and jest. Not many dayslater the jests were turned to cursesand maledictions on the country, thesnowshoe, and the pitiless, experienc-ed agents of the corporation who out-fitted a party of greenhorns andsent them forth on the LonesomeTrail with mankilling. footgear war-ranted to cripple all who wore them. By the heat of the fire dry dufflesand moccasins were hastily put on,and slackly tied so as not to stop thecirculation in the feet and limbs thatwere already in various stages ofswollenness. One by one the menrolled up in their eiderdowns, which. Making Camp A NIGHT OUT ON THE LONESOME TRAIL 915 we had sewn up into the form of hag, these each put such mittens ormoccasins as were still damp. Ifthe heat of our bodies did not drythem, they at least prevented themfrom freezing. Pulling woollen capsdown over face and ears, we crawledfeet first into the bags and pulled thecoverings up and over us, envelopingeven the head. After one has grownaccustomed to half-suflocation, thisarrangement is found to be almostcomfortable; it is necessary to preventthe face from freezing as well as pre-serve the warmth of the body by re-taining it within the bag. Make anopening no larger than the size ofones fist for a very few minutes onlyand you let in a quantity of the pene-trating, frosty air that takes the na-tural heat of the body a quarter of anhour to overcome. Of course someopening must be left at the top of thebag to permit of the sleepers breath-ing; but the steaming breath, blownout through a tiny aperture, is at oncec
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