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,