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CHAPTER IX AMONG THE ICE
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Graham was sitting on the veranda1 of his house at the Landing after supper one evening when Andrew joined him. The veranda was broad, and covered with mosquito-netting, and furnished with a table and one or two chairs; the wooden house was small but pretty. In front a plot of grass, kept green throughout the hot summer by an automatic sprinkler, ran, unfenced, to the edge of the dusty road. Across this a belt of blackened fir stumps3 stretched back to the stacks of lumber4 by the sawmill, and beyond that the lake lay shining in the evening light.
A window was open and Andrew could hear a girl singing. A rattle5 of crockery which suggested that Mrs. Graham was busy with domestic duties also reached him now and then; and a lad who had greeted him pleasantly as he passed sat on the nearest fir stump2 talking with a companion. Graham seemed to indicate it all with a movement of his pipe as he turned to Andrew.
"My world, Mr. Allinson," he said. "A happy one, but narrow."
"I feel inclined to envy you," Andrew replied.
"I am to be envied; I admit it with gratitude6." Graham glanced half wistfully at a map on the table. "For all that, I remember the wide spaces up yonder now and then."
[Pg 90]"If I were in your place, I wouldn't study that map too much."
"Ah! It isn't an amusement that I often indulge in; but sometimes, when I've spent a week making up trumpery7 lumber bills or getting in five-dollar accounts, I find it a solace8 to recall what I used to do. However, I've inconsistently practised prudent
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blizzard
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clump
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lode
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longing
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resolutely
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sitting-room
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contractor
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prospectors
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gorge
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apprehensive
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morose
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doggedly
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laboriously
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buffeting
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mittens
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exertions
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foaming
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