a man of soft civilization sitting at a desk would have grown lean and woe on the fare that kept and daylight at the top of physical they knew as the man at the desk never knows what it is to be all the time to that they could eat any time their were always with them and on edge so that they bit into whatever and with an entire innocence of by three in the afternoon the long twilight faded into n t the stars came out very near and sharp and bright and by their light dogs and men still kept the trail they were and this was no record run of a single day but the first day of sixty such days though day had passed a night without sleep a night of dancing and it seemed to have left no for this there were two explanations first his remarkable vitality and next the fact that such nights were rare in his again enters the man at the desk whose physical would be more hurt by a cup of coffee at burning daylight than could daylight s by a whole night long of strong drink and excitement daylight travelled without a watch feeling the passage of time and largely it by processes by what he considered must be six o clock he began looking for a place the trail at a bend out across the river not having foimd a likely spot they held on for the opposite bank a mile away but they an ice jam which took an hour of heavy work to cross at last daylight what he was looking for a dead tree close by the bank the was run in and up with satisfaction and the work of making camp was the division of labor was excellent each knew what he must do with one axe daylight down the dead pine with a and the other axe cleared away the two feet of snow above the ice and a supply of ice for cooking purposes a piece of dry bark started the fire and daylight went ahead with the cooking while the indian the and fed the dogs their of dried fish the food he high in the trees beyond leaping reach of the next he down a yoimg tree and trimmed off the boughs close to the fire he trampled down the soft snow and covered the packed space with the boughs on this he tossed his own and daylight s gear bags containing dry and and their sleeping robes however had two robes of rabbit skin to daylight s one they worked on steadily without speaking losing no time each did whatever was needed without thought of leaving to the other the least task that presented itself to hand thus saw when more ice was needed and went and got it while a pushed over by the o � was stuck on end again by daylight while daylight coffee was boiling bacon drying and were being mixed daylight found time to put on a big pot of beans came back sat down on the edge of the boughs and in the interval of waiting mended harness i t ink and make um plenty fight maybe remarked as they sat down to eat keep an eye on them was daylight s answer and this was their sole conversation throughout the meal once with a muttered leaped away a stick of in hand and apart a of fighting dogs daylight between fed of ice into the tin pot where it into water the meal finished the fire cut more wood for the morning and returned to the bough bed and his harness mending daylight cut up generous of bacon and dropped them in the pot of beans the of both men were wet and this in spite of the intense cold so when there was no further need for them to leave the of boughs they took off their and them on short sticks to dry before the fire turning them about from time to time when the beans were finally cooked daylight ran part of them into a bag of flour a foot and a half long and three inches in this he then laid on the snow to the remainder of the beans were left in the pot for breakfast it was past nine o clock and they were ready for bed the and among the dogs had long since died down and the weary animals were curled in the snow each with his feet and nose together and covered by his wolf s brush of a tail spread his and lighted his pipe daylight rolled a brown paper and the second conversation of the evening took place i think we come near miles said v burning daylight um i t ink so said they rolled their robes all standing each with a jacket on in place of the they had worn all swiftly almost on the instant they closed their eyes they were asleep the stars leaped and danced in the frosty air and overhead the colored bars of the were shooting like great in the darkness daylight awoke and roused though the still another day had warmed over warmed over beans bacon and coffee composed the breakfast the dogs got nothing though they watched with wistful mien from a distance sitting up in the snow their tails curled around their occasionally they lifted one fore or the other with a restless movement as if the frost in their feet tt was bitter cold at least sixty five below and when the dogs with naked hands he was com several times to go over to the fire and warm the finger tips together the two men loaded and lashed the they warmed their hands for the last time pulled on their and the dogs over the bank and down to the river trail according to daylight s estimate it 