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`` Happy New Year ! '' was the cry , on a beautiful morning , and the young hunters got up to put in a `` full day , '' as Snap expressed it . Right after breakfast they set the turkey to roasting , and made a pie and some other good things . They had a bountiful dinner early and by one o'clock started out for their last hunt . They had already resolved to cross the lake in the direction Shep had seen the silver-tailed foxes . They went over on their skates , and then donned their snowshoes and were soon deep in the forest . Here they soon struck the trail of the foxes and discovered them in an angle , between a cliff and a series of sharp rocks .