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Show 161. last of the carrots. Olaf still sat in front of the oven door. He looked so droxrsy that Bill xras afraid he res going to fall off his chair. He took him some clean socks and put them on the oven door. "Better see if your feet are frost bitten? Sunny's looked all right." Olaf shook his head. "Baaa-maybe they are a little because I could'nt lift them out of the damned snoxr-only drag them through it." Olaf sloxrly started to pull a boot off. Bill leaned doxm and pulled the other one off, and putting the xrarm socks on him said, "Beet look all right." "Thanks Bill. This ol' hoss is goin' to bed." "Want some help?" Bill took his elboxr and helped him into the lean-to. Bill sat doxm and. xraited for the meat to turn grey. Then xrithout even skimming it, he poured some of the liquid off and drank it. Is soon as the carrots xrere soft he put those in a pan and poured some broth in to cover them. He put it out on the xrindoxr ledge to freeze for Little Bill. Bill xrent outside to got xrater. The moon xras full now and he stood looking at the desert mountains that Sunny and Olaf had travelled over. Heaviest snow I've ever seen on them at any time of • the year,, he sai jd +t-~o ih»i«mnos,e».vu , aannda tuh-eu ,f inr-st^ time since Thanks- _ivll,~ that the spring lias been clear of ice. |