And it's finding out when it's going to change that makes you.
We've had a streak of bad luck since we left Poker Flat--you come along, and slap you get into it, too.

If you can hold your cards right along you're all right.

For," added the gambler, with cheerful irrelevance, "'I'm proud to live in the service of the Lord, And I'm bound to die in His army.'" The third day came, and the sun, looking through the white-curtained valley, saw the outcasts divide their slowly decreasing store of provisions for the morning meal.

It was one of the peculiarities of that mountain climate that its rays diffused a kindly warmth over the wintry landscape, as if in regretful commiseration of the past.

But it revealed drift on drift of snow piled high around the hut--a hopeless, uncharted, trackless sea of white lying below the rocky shores to which the castaways still clung.