The furred creatures like the mink and the ermine were safest, for during the warmer hunting days they were of the kind that cached meat.

The wolves and the foxes had sought out the windfalls, and the rocks.

Winged things, with the exception of the owls, who were a tenth part body and nine-tenths feathers, burrowed under snow-drifts or found shelter in thick spruce.

To the hoofed and horned animals the storm meant greatest havoc.

The deer, the caribou and the moose could not crawl under windfalls or creep between rocks.