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`` If the frozen man had been here last night he 'd have been thawed out , '' I said . `` Yes ; and if Shaw had been here , what a good time it would have been for him to let the fire run over his hair and clear off the thickest of it ! '' returned Jack . We started on , but the long wind had brought bad weather , and before noon it began to snow . It kept up the rest of the day , and by night it was three or four inches deep . We stopped at noon at Lance Creek , and made our night camp at Willow Creek ; at each place there was a stage station in charge of one man . It cleared off as night came on , but the wind changed to the north , and it grew rapidly colder .