Daylight, between mouthfuls, fed chunks of ice into the tin pot, where it thawed into water.

The meal finished, Kama replenished the fire, cut more wood for the morning, and returned to the spruce bough bed and his harness-mending.

Daylight cut up generous chunks of bacon and dropped them in the pot of bubbling beans.

The moccasins of both men were wet, and this in spite of the intense cold; so when there was no further need for them to leave the oasis of spruce boughs, they took off their moccasins and hung them on short sticks to dry before the fire, turning them about from time to time.

When the beans were finally cooked, Daylight ran part of them into a bag of flour-sacking a foot and a half long and three inches in diameter.