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CHAPTER III.
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THE SILVER THAW1.—A FOX HUNT.—ANTHONY WORRELL'S DOG.
the snow at nine o'clock had ceased to fall, but had given place to a thick hail, which rattled2 merrily on roof and window pane3, but soon became softer, and mingled4 with rain as the wind veered5 more to the east and south.
"We are in for a heavy thaw," said the elder Davies, "and to-morrow we shall have good sport. It is hardly worth while to get wet to the skin, however, for what few birds we shall get to-day."
"Charley," said the younger Davies, "let us go down to the bar and look up our decoys, for if we have a heavy thaw they may all be washed away and lost."
Putting on their water-proof coats, boots, and sou'westers, the young men took their guns and started for the eastern end of the island. The drifts were very heavy along the fences and under the steep banks which overhung the eastern and northern shores of the island, and huge hummocks6, white, smooth, and unbroken, showed where the snow had[Pg 56] entombed huge bergs and fantastic pinnacles7. Facing the storm with some difficulty, they got out as far as the ice-boat of La Salle, which they found completely covered to the depth of two or three feet.
"We should have been smothered8 if we had taken refuge there last night," said Ben, as he proceeded to search for the buried decoys.
"I think not; for men can breathe below a great depth of snow, and I have heard of sheep being taken alive from a heavy drift after an entombment of twenty or thirty days."
The decoys were soon gathered, and they proceeded to the farther stand, where they took the same precaution against the expected flooding of the floes, piling the decoys into the box until a pyramid of clumsy wooden birds rose several feet above the level of the ice, which was fast becoming soft, and covered with dirty pools of snow water and nasty "sludge."
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gratitude
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astonishment
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