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their feet. I marvelled how they could sleep with them 

 sticking out from under the blankets, with no other pro- 

 tection from the cold than that furnished by the duffel 

 and moccasin. I ceased to wonder once I had viewed 

 the quarter-inch layer of epidermis on the heels and 

 soles. 



