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a new turn out around them, through the crust. All heading 
for the village, the depot, and a market, delaying us often as 
we met them on the levels at the turn outs. 
But all things have an end, and they gradually grow less in 
number as we pass the scattering farm houses and trot gaily 
down the distant hills, soon leaving them all behind with 
nearly the last of civilization, as we turn off and over the long | 
rise, and then down to the nearly unbroken forest. On 
through the quiet evergreens, the road now running east and 
west; even the south wind does not reach us, and we find it 
here at this time as warm as the month of June. The well 
trodden roads are thawing in the sun, allowing the pung to 
slip along after our horse like a feather weight as he skips on 
at a lively trot through the thick growth, the sparkling crust 
beside us being just on a level with the pung seat upon which 
we are sitting. A partridge that is sunning himself at the 
edge of the road, ruffles his plumage and elevates his small 
crest at being disturbed, then goes walking daintily away over 
the crust just out of our sight, but to return to his sun bath 
after our passing. Next a rabbit is seen, that is well used to» 
the roadside, and the pickings of dried clover heads falling 
off the loads of hay, as well as the more thrifty buds growing 
in the light and sunshine. He deigns not to move as we pass 
him, sitting half asleep on the sunny side of the firs, but his 
temerity costs him dearly, as he is wanted at the camp. 
As the sun beyond us, a little to the left, is creeping down- 
ward on its way, lengthening out our shadows on the crust 
that are ever following us behind, we make the last turn on 
our road and are soon at the end of our journey by team. 
Here leaving buffalo coats, wraps, and our foot-wear for 
riding, we pull on many extra stockings and over these our 
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