Chapter 23 WINTER AND SPRING

Snow came as it comes to us in the Northland-a blinding fall, heavy and monotonous-and in forty-eight hours the Johnstown Road was blocked.

Followed a day of dazzling sunshine and intense cold, which set our timbers cracking; and the snow, like finest flour, creaked under our snow-shoes.

All the universe had turned to blue and silver; and the