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| PUBLISHED WEEKLY. | NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1895. | FIVE CENTS A COPY. |
| VOL. XVI.—NO. 816. | TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. |
SNOW-SHOES AND SLEDGES.
BY KIRK MUNROE.
CHAPTER XXXI.
NEL-TE QUALIFIES AS A BRANCH PILOT.
Although disappointed of their guide there was nothing for the sledgeparty to do but push on and trust to their own good judgment to carrythem safely to the end of their journey. So as much of the moose meat ascould be loaded on a sledge, or several hundred pounds in all, wasprepared and frozen that evening. Both then and in the morning the dogswere given all they could eat—so much, in fact, that they were greatlydisinclined to travel during most of the following day.
The latest addition to the party, after being rudely awakened from theslumber into which Jalap Coombs's singing had lulled him, calledpitifully for his mother, and, refusing to be comforted, finally sobbedhimself to sleep on Phil's bear-skin in front of the fire. Here he spentthe night, tucked warmly in a rabbit-skin robe, nestled between Phil andSerge with all his sorrows forgotten for