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to buy coffee, sugar, clothing, garden seeds and other 

 things; but why they didn't buy of the company I don't 

 know. His great good nature and hopefulness made 

 him very interesting, for he was a good and lovable old 

 man. Ah, me! If the camera and dry plates had been 

 invented in those days, and I had owned an outfit, what 

 treasures I would have to-day! 



Tom Davies went to St. Paul for the rest of the pro- 

 visions early in October, and was gone ten days. Henry 

 froze both his feet by riding on the hind end of the wagon 

 with his feet hanging out after he had met Tom at Crow 

 Wing, for we were still in a country where the wagon 

 could be used. It was night and Henry had told Tom 

 that Crosby was lost in the woods, and he hurried on at 

 once because there were but three men on the line. They 

 reached camp while we were breakfasting, but Henry 

 could not stand. He had foolishly worn leather boots, 

 while the rest had shoe-packs of elk-skin, soft and warm 

 in dry weather. This reminds me to say that the In- 

 dians about us wore moccasins of buffalo, which cost one 

 dollar a pair at Crow Wing, but did not wear well. After 

 the men were gone on the line I took Henry's boots off, 

 and put his feet into snow and by chafing them got the 

 blood started. He joked about my cutting his feet off, 

 and his mfssing the dancing that winter, as they swelled 

 so that there seemed to be danger; but in a week he was 

 able to walk, and by cutting one boot for a favorite toe 

 he was soon ready for duty. 



I kept up half-hourly rifle shots and cow-bell ringing 

 for Crosby, and he came into camp, having been out one 

 night without matches or blankets. He had kept from 

 freezing by walking, and had got turned around and fol- 

 lowed the blazed lines the wrong way. Hunger had 

 made him colder, and he had thrown a stick at a bird, 



