of 



deadly in earnest at the time. Twenty-four 

 hours of alertness and activity in the wilds, 

 swimming and wading a torrent of ice-water at 

 two o'clock in the morning, tumbling out into 

 the wet, snowy wilds miles from food and shel- 

 ter, a crushed foot and a helpless leg, the pene- 

 trating, clinging cold, and no fire, is going back 

 to nature about ten thousand years farther than 

 it is desirable to go. But I was not discouraged 

 even for a moment, and it did not occur to me 

 to complain, though, as I look back now, the 

 theory of non-resistance appears to have been 

 carried a trifle too far. At last the fire blazed. 

 After two hours beside it I went down the river 

 greatly improved. The snow was about fifteen 

 inches deep. 



Shortly before daylight I felt that I was close 

 to a trail I had traveled, one that came to Ci- 

 marron near by Court-House Rock. Recrossing 

 the river on a fallen log, I lay down to sleep be- 

 neath a shelving rock with a roaring fire before 

 me, sleeping soundly and deeply until the crash 

 of an overturned cliff awakened me. Jumping 

 to my feet, I found the storm over with the 



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