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Cafe Alexander so we came over the
ice cap - ten sledges in all, men,
women, children, babies, and pups.
On the summit we camped unable
to keep our course owing to a heavy
mist and slight fall of snow. If
you could have looked at us before
this scene you would have been
interested - ten sledges, a hundred dogs,
two of my tents illuminated by the
Prussian glowers, two big fat fires blazing
in the shelter walls, snow blocks
throwing out long and grotesque shadows
glancing at all and especially at the men
and boys playing "Blind Man's Buff"! I
venture to say that the game has never
been played in such an environment
before and with slight possibility of
the blind man ever catching any body!
This over I taught them cross tag.
Picture the Professor as the papers call
him, your old uncle Dudley playing cross