Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-07
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eastward with increasing speed and counerbaance this

again The novelty passion of the
home longer operative The of shverng blue
the moving
of ice gladden. the heart The thermometer and fell be-
below Fahrenheit with ceaseess wind 1t
still very cold The first of May hand bringing
mind the blossoms and smiles of kindly world but here all nature
lines of ice The circled the skies lines of
glaring but its and it's light a
With weary compass in hand my lonely march
ahead the ds continued Progress satisfactory We
had passed and eighty parallels The eig
and eighty would be under foot and the sghr
of the lands should compel action These times
days long to be remembered but only the marks OF the
pencil remain tell the of suppressed existence
FELLow-FEE11NG FOR DOGS.
The long strain of the march had given brothery sympathy
of human strugglers Under the made
the descent levels The dogs though still possessing the
savage eocity wolf their community
We moved among them without hearing of discord
and their sympathetic eyes followed until made
Portable If dogs happened placed
enough they edged up encrced giving benefit of
their animal fires To remind of their ostcovered
frequently pushed under the Bag and occasionally
cold touched skin with rude awakening We
however, and brute
strength Their adaptabty frequent topic of conversation
With that guarantee against all weather conditions
they threw themselves down the of wndsn de-
hance of deahdealing They willingly did podigious
work each day and then bedfeows they offered their
fur shelter bones head their twofooed
pons We had learned the advantage of their beat
ing fellowship had tighter and
tighter long of adventures And there
stronger appreciate for together
seeking escape from world which intended
for with humping hearts.
Much very heavy crossed the eghteghth par
ael the endless unbroken fields of the nohward trails
again changed considerably. light
cutting spasmodic
squalls shorter intervals The clear purple blues
gradually changed light gray
needles came the pack for several hours each day.
COULD BROOK NO DELAY
The inducements seek shelter cemented walls of and
wait for better weather But such delay fore
stalled Under fair conditions barely
food reach land while short delays easily
jeopardze We could therefore, do otherwise than
force ourselves against wind and drift with all possible
speed, closing the eye unavoidable suffering.
With alternative tried persuade ourselves that cond
tons might be
eghtyseventh crossed, eghtyxth neared
but there time when both mind and body weared the
whole problem of forced resolution.
The hard work of gloo building thing of the past
only had been built since leaving pole precious
day lost while the atmospheric fury changed the face of the
endless expanse desoaon The little silk
sufficiently from the airs There still fifty degrees of fos
but with hardened skins and insensible men the
nots keeny felt.
The steady pemmcan en-
tely satisfactory We onged enough give filling
but the ration slightly reduced rather than
The change life from winter which
place about this time year only by
change shelter from the snowhouse
moved from the soft shelf of the gloo the hard wind
swept
TR1v1AL1T1Es FOOD FOR THOUGHT
In my wakeu watches get peep of the just the
right awake during much of the resting PERIOD
and for pasme wandered from snorng snoring
During these idle solution of
the utility of the dogs TAIL topic with which play
for several days 1t quoted here the risk censu
typical phase of lives which illustrated
Seeming trivaites seized upon thought
Why has the tail all? The
and the hare, each in very
dwarfed stub Why does the dog its
growing the finest fur seemingly useless line
The thing distinctive could
without this but the arctic
display beauties and This tail
have otherwise knife
of frost and Yes 1t by
wolf progenor of the dog from swing
served useful purpose in fly time made breathe
air requires protection
shortcoming much The dog supplied
vvhe discovery cold wind
charged with cutting crystals brushed the pack Each had his