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Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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Lower Blue Lake, from a shady corner of the shore to kindle a fire; but the cold, tired, hungryyouths had forgotten to see if the chim-ney to the fireplace was open, so in ashort space of time the little cabin wasfilled with smoke. What was the trouble?Drawing on wet socks and high-top bootsall squeezed out of the partly opened doorto find that a huge drift of snow had en-veloped the chimney. Taking snowshoesall began scraping the snow away, andwhen the smoke began pouring out ofthe hole the trio again went inside, onlyto find that the largest portion of the snowhad fallen inside and had smothered the
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Lower Blue Lake, Round Top Mountain in the distance, nice warm fire. Patiencewas nearly exhaustedand all came to the con-clusion that luck wasgoing against them. But,Try once more! was themotto of George, andafter a while a fire wasblazing in the fireplaceand the cold feet felt pin-and-needle prickly, sothey knew that theywould soon be feelingbetter. Then a can ofbeans and some crackerswere produced and eachate wolfishly, yet watch-ing that none took morethan his share. Once it seemed as ifthe tenderfoot was going to cry, for hedropped a whole bean from one of hiscrackers, and although he looked long andeagerly he could not find it. It didnt takelong to devour what little lunch there was,and then the work of breaking up whatloose wood there was left was in order.There was found enough wood to last untildaylight. Coffee, no one knew how old, was resur-rected from an old box and that helpedto fill up the stomachs. After Charlietasted it he said he didnt think he wantedany. Sparingly the

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