It is not well for us to lie hidden in the ground through a whole winter." "But when we leave our good home here I shall leave many regrets behind." He looked around at the cave and its supplies of skins and furs, its stores of wood and food.

Fortune had helped their own skill and they had made a marvelous change in the place.

Its bleakness and bareness had disappeared.

In the cold and bitter wilderness it offered more than comfort, it was luxury itself.
"So shall I," said Tayoga, appreciatively, "but we will heap rocks up to the very top of the door, so that only a little air and nothing else can enter, and leave it as it is.

Some day we may want to use it again." Having decided to go, they became very impatient, but they did not skimp the work on the snowshoes, knowing how much depended on their strength, but that task too, like all the others, came to an end in time.