The Mate of the Vancouver — page 156: what you’re looking at

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144 ‘THE MATE OF THE VANCOUVER. ‘weary winter, and, if they prefer it, they can think that we “holed up,” as Mac said, like the bears, and slept through it all. For in the next part of th’s yarn it will be spring, with the snow melting fast, and the trail be- \ ginning to look like a path again that even a sailor, who was not a mountaineer, could hope to travel on without losing his life, or 2 even his way. x “ ? ; i A 5: Bid 4 Oxi 3t0 iene Es ts