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may on occasion dip down to thirty, yes, even forty, 

 degrees below, and whenever with that cold there also 

 comes a gale of wind, it conjures up the awful tempest 

 of the snow that is now of world-wide fame as — the blizzard. 



No. II. The record of the Fox's hunt. 



The bhzzard is a terror to wild Hfe out on the plains. When 

 it comes the biggest, strongest, best clad, rush for shelter. 

 They know that to face it means death. The prairie 

 chickens or grouse have learned the lesson long ago. What 

 shelter can they seek? There is only one — an Eskimo 



