The Mate of the Vancouver — page 138: what you’re looking at

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THE MATE OF THE VANOOUVER. learnt in a hurry, they must come by long - custom, or by native instinct. | : eS Sorrowfully—for I am always loth to | hatm even a noxious animal, ‘as long as it | leaves me alone—I suggested +> Mac that we = should leave the horses. He shook his head. “Who'll carry the provisions, then?” said he. “ Do you think we can get to the Landing, Mac?” I asked. “ We shall be lucky,” he answered, with a significant hod, “ if we get to the other side of the Columbia. Tom, I think J have let you * in fot a winter up here, unless you care about ¢ , snow-shoeing it over the other pass. I was a : fool—say yes to that if you like.” It was late when we camped, but my partner was in better spirits than he had been at tioon when we held the above conversa- tion, for we had done, by dint of forced marching, quite as much as we did in fine ~ weather, But the ponies were very tired,