They put rugs and coats around me 

 till I could not move with their weight ; 

 but they were putting them around a 

 snow woman. The only thing I felt 

 was the icy wind, and that went through 

 my shivering, shaking self. The snow 

 was falling quietly and steadily, as it had 

 fallen all day. We must cross yonder 

 divide to-morrow. It was no time to 

 be ill. Every one felt that, and big, 

 black gloom was settling over the camp, 

 when I by way of being cheerful re- 

 marked to the Host: "Do you-ou 

 kno-ow, I feel as though there was 

 n-nothing of me b-but the sno-ow I ate 

 an hour ago." 



" Snow ! " he exclaimed. " Did you 

 eat much ? Well, no wonder you are 

 ill." 



The effect was instantaneous. Every- 

 body looked relieved ; I was not even a 

 heroine. 



