title: Adventures, blizzards, and coastal calamities
author:  Edward Rowe Snow 
description: Copyright 1978 by Edward Rowe Snow. Published by Dodd, Mead &amp; Company, New York. Printed in the USA with number line: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10", thus first edition/printing.
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  J HE QUICK mountain twilight was rushing down as the Raven brothers came in
  sight of Ceraak's station. They had ridden down the pass from the east, and
  the blizzard was out of the north. Snow whitened their right sides from hats
  to boots, mounding on the right side of their hat brims. Their whiskers were
  frosted stiff on that side, and their horses' right flanks were caked white.
  The storm was incredibly fierce for the season's first. It beat at the two
  hunched riders with bony fists, as if with a conscious intent to smash down
  the men and their mounts.
  
  
  The sky was a flinty, churning gray like dirty surf. It had built from a few
  streaky banners of cloud at noon to a massed, scud