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when I get up I have to put on 2 parks of socks, reinforce my trousers with another pair, put on an over coat to prevent my coat from freezing to my shirt, and now since the weather has increased in frigidity I am afraid to wash my face in the morning for fear that my classic features might congeal and I never think of washing my hear, for if water came in contact with it, the water would freeze and leave my hair sticking out like the capillary covering of a porcupine. A la this way: [drawing]

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When the sun rises we have to keep moving about so that we will not freeze to our shadows upon the ground. You will often see a student with a large knife out stooping down and lacerating something. On a nearer approach you will observe that he is only disengaging his feet from his shadow by cutting off the shadow. A man is almost afraid to draw his breath all in one spot, for fear of freezing his thoracic cavity and impairing the lungs.

We can give Klondike, cards and spades, and win the game easily.