Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 512
In severest weather the dogsare unprotected save by the thick coats of hairthat nature provides. When a road-house isreached, they often share its shelter with the car-rier, but not infrequently they burrow deep intothe snow-drift and, curled up in their warmth, waituntil bidden to move on Often… … A ROUGH BIT OF THE POST ROAD. only on making time—safely delivering the mail.Their one playing truant from the line of dutyis chasing the snowbirds that flit across the trail.So enticing is this sport that often the driver isat the mercy of the team, which quits the trailand in eagerness to catch…
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