few paces, then he returned and ran about snuffing and
scraping up the snow. At last he looked up and uttered
a long melancholy howl.
"Ah! I knowed it," said Dick, pushing forward.
"Come on, pup; you'll have to
follow
now. Any way
we must go on."
The snow that had fallen was not deep enough to
offer the slightest obstruction to their advance. It was,