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exclaimed Roy , beating his numbing hands together . `` We can fix ` er . '' The two boys made this attempt and , as often as they thought they had patched up the shattered ski and mounted into the car in attempts to make a start , the patched strip of wood would part and the chassis would lunge again into the snow . After a half hour of attempts of this kind , Roy recalled the dog sled in the distant hut of the paralyzed Indian and , in desperation , after four o'clock , for it was now getting desperately cold , he secured Norman 's consent to a trip back to the Indian 's cabin and the securing of at least a part of the sled to patch up their machine . The winter days were now growing short and when Roy hurried away into the gray woods night was fast coming on . Nor did he find an easy task before him . In the end it was necessary to pay the paralytic twenty-five dollars before he could secure possession of the sled .