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Going to the stage, he took down his five-foot snowshoes, slipped 

 his moccasined feet into the thongs, and with his gun resting in the 

 hollow of his beniittened hand, and the sled's hauling-line over his 

 shoulder, strode off through tlie vaulted aisles between the boles of 

 evergreens; while through a tiny slit in the wall of his moose-skin 

 home two loving eyes watched his stahvart figure vanishing among 

 ilie . . . See Cfiapter IV 



