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Show 76. CHAPTER V. The next four xreeks were good screening weather, though colder than usual. About mid-day on the 23rd of December, i t s t a r t e d to blow a g a i n . Weasel and Sunny stopped screening and Olaf, for the t h i r d time, came in empty-handed from hunting. Bill hadn't brought in anything big since before Thanksgiving. I t xras a bad storm, and time and time again the cabin f i l l e d with smoke and over everything there s e t t l e d a thin layer of ashes. The thing that kept bothering B i l l xras how e a r l y i t was to have hunting so poor. Olaf and he hadn't been a b l e to keep them in fresh meat these l a s t four xreeks, although Olaf res a crack hunter, knew t h i s area xrell, xrhere the deer t r a i l s were, and how t o track game i n t o the lower v a l l e y s . Some of the old timers in Blue Burg xrould be thinking how e a r l y in the xrinter i t s t i l l res and xrould be counting t h e i r bags of flour and beans-the months they^have to spread them over. The new men-Bill shook h i s head. He'd b e t t e r stop thinking and get his Christmas dinner together. |