E. R. Punshon

“ A man up against it can do wonders on snow and birch-bark, but, all the same, that's feed that has its limitations. Then there were his dogs, but by the time it comes to dogs, dogs don't amount to much. I know that's my experience. Likely enough, Pete's would have wandered off before he was real pressed, or eaten each other, or else the wolves would have got them. A very good soup can be made of boiled leather—boots and such-like—which I've known help a man to hold out till help came; and there's other ways a starving man finds out. ”

“ Often the Northern Lights would blaze overhead in great streams of red and crimson and yellow, and the stars were a glory and a wonder; but little those two heeded as they fought their way on, frozen, starving, despairing, hating each other more fiercely with every hardship they endured. ”

“ The distance was great, the weather was worse than usual, there wasn't the semblance of a trail, there was Lost Men's Hills to cross, there wasn't one chance in a hundred of getting through. Besides, likely enough Pete was dead by now.
"See here, gentlemen," said Morphy himself, "there ain't no one sorrier for Pete than what I am. It's tough luck, but he's struck it tough, and there's no more to be said. Some does, some don't—it's the way things go." ”

“ At first he was inclined to believe he had gone mad, as men have done in the frozen solitudes, and that his visitors were only visions of his own; but he says he reckoned even a vision would be glad of food and warmth, and he hustled round right smart to fill up the stove with fresh wood and get a hot breakfast ready.
Mike they hoisted up on the roof of the shack. They reckoned he wouldn't mind, and they wanted him out of the way of the dogs. Then Hall tried to get thawed out, while Pete hustled around. ”

“ One of the parsons in the town made a sermon about it, which most thought playing it a little low down on a fellow in a sight worse fix than the parson had ever known, and men used to swop stories of fellows they had known cut off by freeze-up and forced to winter way up. ”