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Show 118. during the next days of good xreather, and every night he and Olaf talked. Although the screening was going well Bill hadn't seen a thing to shoot. Friday night, Bill told them they were eating the last of the horse meat in the stexr. Olaf said, "Don't worry B i l l . I ' l l go xray south tomorrow. I've been thinking of going every day I've been screening. Trouble i s , the snoxr's going to be s t i l l deep over there and xre haven't had a freeze that xrould make it hard enough to xralk on even xrith snoxr shoes. I ' l l have to travel sloxrly or I ' l l go through and might not be able to get out.w Bill said, "Take Sunny xrith you." "I'm not doin' the screenin' for a l l of us!" Weasel said. "We've already lost too many days xrith the xreather, and these hunting t r i p s Olaf goes on don't get us meat or gold!" "Figure this out Weasel. We've got less than seventy pounds of flour left now. I bake over three pounds a day, and if xre have meat, and if xre get a pack train the first week in April, xre'11 squeak by. Chance for a pack train that about early is-, /fifty-fifty. Tiny might have made it over. He's strong and young and he took snoxr shoes, but if he hits soft snow, he'd not xjait or detour around it. "He sure wouldn't! He'd plough right into it." Sunny said. "He's reckless," Bill said, "I'm not giving him more than an even chance of making it into Sacramento. If he |
