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early. One's rest is a good deal broken in winter 

 time, and it is necessary to go to bed early in order 

 to get enough sleep, because in very cold weather 

 it is highly advisable to keep a fire burning all 

 night ; and, as yet, hunters have not evolved 

 the faculty of putting on logs in their sleep. It 

 would be most useful if they could do so ; and, 

 according to the law of evolution, some of them 

 by this time ought to have done it. However, 

 I was not much troubled ; for Sandie, who slept 

 by the fire, was very wakeful. I would generally 

 awake about two or three in the morning to find 

 the logs blazing and crackling merrily, and Sandie 

 sitting in the ingle smoking his pipe, plunged in 

 deep thought. 



" Well, Sandie," I would say, ** what kind of a 

 night is it, and what are you thinking of ? " 



" Oh, well, it's a fine night, just a wee bit cheely 

 outside (thermometer about 25° below zero) ; 

 and I'm thinking we did not make that stalk after 

 the big stag just right yesterday ; and I'm thinking 

 where we'll go to-day to find him." Then we 

 would smoke a little — haver a little, as Sandie 

 would call it — and discuss the vexed question of 

 how we made the mistake with the big stag ; 

 and having come to a satisfactory conclusion, and 



