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awful kind-hearted woman. She'd look after 

 anybody that was ailing. You know two of them 

 children of hers is adopted. She took 'em because 

 their mother died and their father couldn't look 

 after 'em." 



That afternoon we had no further trouble about 

 meeting teams. There were plenty of turnouts all 

 along the road. From this district the logs were 

 being hauled down to the frozen surface of a lake, 

 and the sleds were going and coming at all times of 

 the day. We could hear the clang of the big bells 

 before the teams came in sight, and always had 

 time to haul into a turnout so that they could 

 pass us. 



For a mile or more before we reached the lake, 

 our way led through a dense cedar swamp, and 

 here in the thick growth deer, yarding for the win- 

 ter, had tramped regular paths through the deep 

 snow. The thicket provided them with shelter, 

 while moss and bark and tender twigs of the young 

 growth gave them food. As we drove along we 

 counted five; they seemed not at all disturbed at 

 our presence. 



A little farther we came to the lake, where the 

 teamsters were unloading their logs, the booming 

 of which we had heard long before we reached the 

 shore. Hauling round the timber as it lay spread 

 out over more than an acre, we headed for the 



