All night long, all the long night!long as lifetimes are, measured with slow-dropping arteries that drip away living blood.

" Crossing the river on a big snow-bridge below the point where our old enemy came thundering down the mountain-side, we tramped gaily through mud and mire and over slippery rocks until we were gladdened by the sight of our camp, dripping away peacefully in the midst of the weeping forest.