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Slowly the winter wore away to the three boys, each anxious for spring to arrive, that they might hunt for gold. There was a good deal of snow, and some biting cold weather, and then it began to moderate slowly but surely, until the ice in the river broke away and the snow disappeared from the valley as if by magic.
"Hurrah! Spring at last! " cried Mark, one day when the sun came out extra strong. "I am not sorry for it."