RE we lost, little brother?" 

 said Mooka, shivering. 



"ARE 



/i sai 



No need of the question, startling and ter- 

 rible as it was from the lips of a child astray 

 in the vast solitudes; for a great gale had 

 swooped down from the Arctic, blotting out 

 in clouds of whirling snow the world of plain 

 and mountain and forest that, a moment be- 

 fore, had stretched wide and still before the 

 little hunters' eyes. 



For an hour or more, running like startled 

 deer, they had tried to follow their own 

 snow-shoe trail back over the wide barrens 

 into the friendly woods ; but already the 

 snow had filled it brim full, and whatever 



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