Note (return) — W.F. GIESE, A.M. (continued 4)
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Two days passed. He found six bits of cedar and obtained a fire. He killed some reindeer and preserved the torn flesh in the ice. It was preserved thus all the year. Having no axe he transported to his grotto the splinters of the trees torn to pieces by the frost. Every morning he began again6 the struggle with the cold and the solitude, because he desired to live and to return some day to his hearth. He adored life.