any other thing, and that in most cases 

 good intentions do not lighten the 

 offence. My ignorance that time was 

 of the effect of eating snow on an empty 

 stomach. My intentions were of the 

 best, for, being thirsty, I ate several 

 handfuls of snow in order to save the 

 cook from getting water out of a brook 

 that was frozen. But my punishment 

 was the same — a severe chill which 

 made me very ill. 



I had been cold all day, but that is a 

 very different thing from having a chill. 

 I felt stuffed with snow ; snow water ran 

 in my veins, snow covered the earth, the 

 peaks around me. I was mad with 

 snow. They gave me snow whisky 

 and put me beside a snow fire. I had 

 not told any one what I had done, not 

 realising what was the mischief maker, 

 and it really looked as though I had 

 heart disease, or something dreadful. 





«Sic^:/.-. 



