The Big Otter (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | R M Ballantyne | knygos.lt

Aprašymas

Cold comfort is naturally suggested by a bed of snow, yet I have enjoyed great comfort and much warmth in such a bed. My friend Lumley was particularly fond of warmth and of physical ease, yet he often expressed the opinion, with much emphasis, that there was nothing he enjoyed so much as a night in a snow-bed. Jack Lumley was my chum-a fine manly fellow with a vigorous will, a hardy frame, and a kindly heart. We had a natural leaning towards each other-a sort of undefinable sympathy-which inclined us to seek each other's company in a quiet unobtrusive way. We were neither of us demonstrative; we did not express regard for each other; we made no protestations of undying friendship, but we drew together, somehow, especially in our hunting expeditions which were numerous. On holidays-we had two in the week at the outpost in the American backwoods where we dwelt-when the other young fellows were cleaning gulls or arranging snow-shoes for the day's work, Lumley was wont to say to me: - "Where d'you intend to shoot to-day, Max?" (Max was an abbreviation; my real name is George Maxby.