11 seconds sound clip from the The Outcasts of Poker Flat classic radio drama series episode.
You can hear this line at 00:26:24.795 in the radio play.
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- Feathery drifts of snow, shaken from the long pine boughs, flew like white-winged birds and settled about them as they slept.
- The moon through the rifted clouds looked down upon what had been the camp.
- But all human stain, all trace of earthly travail, was hidden beneath the spotless mantle mercifully flung from above.
- They slept all that day and the next.
- Nor did they waken when voices and footsteps broke the silence of the camp.
- And when pitying fingers brushed the snow from their worn faces, you could scarcely have told from the equal peace that dwelt upon them which was she that had sinned.
- Even the law of Poker Flat felt this, and turned away, leaving them still locked in each other's arms.
- But at the head of the gulch, on one of the largest pine trees, they found the deuce of clubs pinned to the bark with a bowie knife.
- It bore a message written in pencil with a firm hand.
- Beneath this tree lies the body of John Oakhurst who struck a streak of bad luck on the 23rd of November, 1850, and handed in his checks on the 7th of December, 1850.
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