The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-16

Boy, who is the hero of the adventures,
but whose real name we are never
told Potts, from nowhere in particu-
lar; Mac, a Scot of the Scots, and
O'Flynn, a good-natured Irishman,
completed the number all come to-
gether through chance meeting ana
becoming s'pardnerS'' for the long Win
ter camp. The first summer they got
partly through and then had to go into
camp for the long seven month winter.
mostly twilight and dreary beyond ex-
preston. The Colonel and the Boy
paired off from the beginning, and each
man put his possessions and supplies
into a common pool and rules were
laid down for the little. community.
The long night wore away with only an
occasional visitor, sometimes an Indian,
or one of the Jesuit priests from Holy
Cross, the nearest mission to the Big
Chimney camp, as the men called their
hut. Darker days are in store for the
little party. discomfort and quarrels
arise and the food is becoming per-
ceptibly short, so the Colonel and the
Boy decide upon the hazardous expert
ment Of going overland to Dawson with
sled, but no dogs. which. to the sea-
soned Klondiker is madness. They
start, fairly well provisioned, get to
Holy Cross. where they are greatly
impressed by the work of the fathers
and nuns, are reprovisioned and start
on their way. The description of these
two men on the long trail, their trials,
mishaps and struggles is an achieve
ment in word painting. The gradual
disappearance of the food and the
manner in which the brute man comes
out, the suspicious watching of each
other and the terrible calculating
about which shall take the others life
in case of the awful necessity which
may come, is well and thrilling1y told.
But the need passes and they reach
Dawson. only to meet with disappeint-
ment, nearly all good claims having
been taken, and they are among large
number of heartbrol1en and discour-
aged men. The one woman in the
book, Maudie, dancer in a saloon, has
good heart and nurses the Colonel
through a long illness, only to lose him
after all. The strong character of the
story, the Boy, is capitally drawn, and
the last we hear Of him is when he
takes boat to go back to Holy Cross
and the presumption is that he joins
the Jesuits The remarkable thing
about the book is the wonderful at
moSphere of the frozen north with
which it, invests the reader. and the
fascination which this strange, rough
life has for man. 1t is tale of men
in the raw, without any veneer Of civ
ilization or eonventionality. Miss Ro-
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most notable books of the year.
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