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Show 78. side. The xrind should keep the snoxr pretty cleaned out from there on in. If i t ' s drifting bad, though,xrhen you get to Skunk Flat and the snoxr is over your knees-come back! You'd not have a chance in a hundred of making i t to the fork." Weasel nodded and l e f t. Bill continued carrying out the ashes. He'd knoxm ever since the morning Dad died that Weasel's mindc~:was always on gambling; my going in and out Bill thought has made him think he might make i t to Blue Burg. "That'll take care of the ashes for a couple of days. Olaf xrhat are his chances?" Bill asked. "Remember that blizzard we had l a t e in March l a s t year?" "I remember i t , " said Bill putting xrood in the f i r e. " I 'd come nearly this far hunting-further south though. Anyway I resn't dressed to hole-up and hadn't carried my bed r o l l . It had seemed almost like a spring day when I started out that morning. I made i t in,but I had a l i t t l e frost b i t e , and I ' d turn back if I xras in Weasel's boots right now." Bill xrent over and got the water bucket, emptied i t into the t e a k e t t l e and said, "Might as xrell xrater the coxr and h o r s e - s t i l l too cold in here to take off my coat." When he got back Sunny had come in from the shack, put L i t t l e Bill back in his bed and xras s i t t i n g slumped doxm by the stove xrith his head in his hands. Hour a f t e r hour he'd |