r when they broke camp. Having breakfasted heartily on sourdough flapj

arked Jennings as he rolled up the canvas f

e warmer,"

but s

ed Joe, "that so

two small double pulleys and a coil of rope, "the next thi

rlie, "but how you going to hitch

eet progress in a day sometimes. Three of our crowd never did get over; froze to death right here on the glacier. But I tell you," he exclaimed suddenly, "those were the days! Those were the men! It's always the bravest

those blocks. When you get that do

er strap these on your shoe

they were strapped upon the soles of one's shoes they transformed their

steel barbs beneath the balls of his feet into t

ocks into which the rope had been thread

ent later. "Hitch the other bl

on the ridge above, held firm, and the sled climbed slowly up the almost perpendicular b

e do it?" w

spered back. "He sur

to pull it up and we had t

as a block glided back to the

he dogs had been induced to follow, the boys c

nly a stake in the ice.

ake which stuck ten inches a

a dozen of them. You'll find them up the glacier, all frozen in. All I had to do was to chip a hole in the ice, then thrust in a stake. After that I filled the hole full of snow, then poured water over it. The snow and water froze together almost instantly and here we have our stakes. We'll have lunch on

lfilled and the boys were preparing the second night's camp, th

iner, "we will sleep on

claimed Curlie in sur

and

ut them on every side. Then he allowed his eyes to wander o

ot which was surrounded by trees. "First we'll t

o work packing dow

ong nights. Fairly long now but they'll get much longer. Get to be twenty

ork and make the jobs regular; each fellow do the same thing every nig

ere's a likely looking tree

burn; it

aid it

an axe to drive it into t

," said the miner. "Get it down and

tening out the tent, which had collected dampness fr

g inside, he set up the sheet-iron stove and started a fire. As the tent, warme

oy had felled his tree

hs to go across each side of our tent and chop the first six i

tent. He next drew the lower edges of the tent out over the logs and packed snow over them t

to our tent to-night. Next thing is a lot of spru

small twigs on the branches. The boys followed his example. In a few moments the shorn branches were a

ld up the stove while I spread a canvas o

bed!" exclaimed Joe, as he bounced

very night, we'll get a lot of comfort out of it and be all the better fitted for the trail. I'll go