I dismounted, and, without unsaddling buy cheap uggs online the mules, took offtheir packs, now reduced to a few pounds, which was all thewretched, raw-backed, and half-dead, animals could staggerunder; and, putting my blanket, the remains of a ham, and alittle packet of tea - some eight or ten tea-spoonfuls - onone mule, I again prepared to mount my horse and depart.
     　　I took, as it were, a sneaking glance at Samson. He wassitting upon the ground, with his face between his knees,sobbing.
     　　At three-and-twenty the heart of a man, or of a woman - ifeither has any, which, of course, may be doubtful - is apt toplay the discount ugg boots dynamite with his or her resolves. Water-drops haveever been formidable weapons of the latter, as we all know;and, not being so accustomed to them then as I have becomesince, the sight of the poor devil's abject woe anddestitution, the thought that illness and suffering were thecauses, the secret whisper that my act was a cowardly one,forced me to follow the lines of least resistance, and submitto the decrees of destiny.
     　　One more page from my 'Ride,' and the reader will, I think,have a fair conception of its general character. For thelast two hours the discount ugg boots ascent of the Blue Mountains had been verysteep. We were in a thick pine forest. There was a track -probably made by Indians. Near the summit we found a springof beautiful water. Here we halted for the night. It was asnug spot. But, alas! there was nothing for the animals toeat except pine needles. We lighted our fire against thegreat up-torn roots of a fallen tree; and, though it wasfreezing hard, we piled on such masses of dead boughs thatthe huge blaze seemed to warm the surrounding atmosphere.
     　　I must here give the words discount ugg boots of my journal, for one exclamationin it has a sort of schoolboy ring that recalls the buoyancyof youthful spirits, the spirits indeed to which in earlylife we owe our enterprise and perseverance:
     　　'As I was dozing off, a pack of hungry wolves that hadscented us out set up the most infernal chorus ever heard.
     　　In vain I pulled the frozen buffalo-robe over my head, andtried to get to sleep. The demons drew nearer and nearer,howling, snarling, fighting, moaning, and making a row in theperfect stillness which reigned around, as if hell itselfwere loose. For some discount ugg boots time I bore it with patience. Atlength, jumping up, I yelled in a voice that made the valleyring: You devils! will you be quiet? The appeal wasimmediately answered by silence; but hearing them tuning upfor a second concert, I threw some wood on the blazing fireand once more retired to my lair. For a few minutes I layawake to admire a brilliant Aurora Borealis shooting out itsstreams of electric light. Then, turning over on my side, Inever moved again till dawn.'