The Old Timer of Sulphur Creek

He pictured the boys finding his body next day. Freezing was not so bad as people thought. There were lots worse ways to die. When he got back to the states, he could tell the folks what real cold was. He drifted on from this to a of the old timer on sulphur creek. The dog sat facing him and waiting. Never in the dog's ex rience had it known a man to sit like that in the snow and make no fire. As the twilight drew on, its eager yearning for the fire mastered it. And with a great lifting and shifting of forefeet, it whined softly,. Then flattened its ears down in anticipation of being chid by