Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

Anyway. ON he came. brealdastless, through
the choking blast stopped and did my best
to turn him back
PUT Nature, it seems. was ut the bottom of
the affair and she gains her ends with
dogs as well with men, making us do as
she likes, showing and pulling Us along her
ways, however rough all but killing US at times
in getting her lessons driven hard home.
After had stopped again and again, shout
ing good warning advice, saw that he was not
to be shaken of; as wen might the earth try
to shake OF the moon.
The pitiful little wanderer just stood there in
the wind drenched and blinking, saying dog
gediy where thou goest will Co."
So at last told him TO come on II he must,
and gave him O piece of the bread had in my
pocket; then we struggled ON together, and thus
began the most memorable of al my wild days.
THE level food, driving hard In our faces.
thrasled and washed US wildly until we got
into the shelter OF q grove on the east side of
the glacier near the 'front.' where We stopped
Q while for breath and to listen and look out.
Looking southwark from our shelter. we had
the forested mountain wall on our left. the Spiry
ice-crags on our right, and smooth gray gloom
ahead.
About three miles above the front Of the
glacier climbed to the surface Of II by means
Of ax-steps, made easy for Stickeen. AS far as
the eye could reach, the level, or nearly level,
glacier stretched away indefinitely beneath the
gray sky seemingly boundless prairie of Ice
No trace OF the west shore was visible, and In
case the clouds should settle and give snow or
the wind again become violent feared getting
caught in a tangle Of crevasSes.
But at last pushed out for the other side,
and In time we came TO q closely crevaSsed
section in which we had to make long narrow
tacks and doublings, tracing the edges OF ire
mendous transverse and longitudinal crevaSSes,
many Of which were from 20 to 30 feet wide
and perhaps q thousand feet deep-beautiful
and awful
In working q way through them was
severely cautious, but Stickeen came on rs un-
hesitating as the flying clouds The widest
crevasse that could Jump he would leap
without SO much as hating to take . look
at It.
LIE seemed to care nothing for the crevasses,
wells. mouths or swift flashing streams
into which he might fall
His stout mufiIed body seemed all one skip
ping muscle and it was truly wonderful to see
how swiftly and to all appearance heedIessly
he flashed across nerve trying chasms six or
eight feet wide.
His courage was so unwavering that it seemed
to be due to dullness Of perception, Is IL he
were only blindly bold, and kept warning
him to be careful. For we had been COM
panions on so many wilderness trips that had
formed the habit Of talking to him IS If he
were boy and understood every word.
We gained the west shore in about three
hours, the width Of the glacier here being
about seven miles. Then I pushed northward
in order to see far back possible into the
fountains of the Fairweather Mountains in case
the clouds should rise.
In an hour or so, after passing massive
headland, we came suddenly on branch Of the
glacier, which in the form Of q magnificent
ice cascade two miles wide was pouring over the
rim of the main basin in q westerly direction,
its surface broken into wave-shaped blades and
shattered blocks, suggesting the" widest upS'