"An Eskimo winter is long enough, but one in Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York is longer--for me." "I understand they had you up before the Committee on Ways and Means at Washington." "Yes, along with Carl Lomen, of Nome.

But Lomen was the real man.

He has forty thousand head of reindeer in the Seward Peninsula, and they had to listen to him.

We may get action." "May!" Captain Rifle grunted his doubt.

"Alaska has been waiting ten years for a new deck and a new deal.