Snow is the keynote of the landscape, even as late as the first week in May. The ice on the rivers has melted somewhat, but men are still to be seen walking across it, or perch ed over a hole, handling a line which has been sunk with bait hoping to add to the day's provender, Jor provide a means for earning rouble ar two which Is sorely needed in these hard times. Though patches of a yellow ochro grass show where
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