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Often the next day after the northern lights would come the storm . It was on the very day that I had said to Kaiser and Pawsy at breakfast -LRB- that is , January 25th -RRB- that it was a month since I had seen any human being , that I was at the depot after a load of ground feed , and in looking to the northwest thought I saw something moving . It did not take me long to go up the windmill tower . It was not past ten o'clock in the forenoon , so the light for looking toward the northwest was good , though of course , as the sun was shining , the snow was pretty dazzling . But I could still only make out that something was moving south or southwest . It was impossible to tell if it were men or horses or cattle . So I went down as fast as I could , jumped onto the sled , and the next minute Kaiser had me at the hotel , where I got the field-glass and went back .