Still, it is the loggers toiling in the wilderness who feel the cold snaps most, for the man who labours under an Arctic frost must be generously fed, or the heat and strength die out of him, and, now and then, it happens that provisions become scanty when no canoe can be Poled up the rivers, and the trails are blocked with snow.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
At last Mattawa, standing up forward, Poled the canoe in where a deep ravine rent the dark rock's side, and the party went ashore, wet and gasping.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
The old man got on to a log and Poled himself across, and found, down in the keel of the boat, the mark of a man's bare foot driven deep into the wood; but there was no coin or other trace to show who it might be.
"Moonshine & Clover"
Laurence Housman