Part 61 (1/2)
”Sail and steam, as we did”
”Yes, sir, that sounds easy; but suppose they cannot? Suppose you made up your o for the ice”
”Exactly, sir; and the walrus boats couldn't sail up here for the ice”
”Ugh! it is cold,” said Steve with a shi+ver ”I wonder what the glass says Wish I'd looked”
”It would not have been a fair test, sir; it is warmer down in the cabin You are not unwell, only you feel the chill just waking up from sleep”
”Yes, I feel better no the stars shi+ne!”
”You'll see theot anything hard in your pocket?”
”Onlyfor you,” replied the Norseman ”Wait a minute, sir”
He turned and stepped down into the furnace-room, to return directly
”Take that, sir”
”What is it? Luht out on the ice, sir I want you to try it Quick!
there's so for you to look at now”
”But surely there's no ice for it to fall on,” said Steve ”It's impossible”
All the sa back, threw it as far as he could out over the fiord; and, to his utter astonishular ain and again before it became motionless
”Why, the ice must be quite half an inch thick!” cried Steve ”No wonder I felt cold”
”Yes, sir, it's freezing hard; the winter has begun, though of course it will be warn of the cold weather co”
He pointed to the northward, where the Great Bear shone with a brightness foreign to that which he would have seen at hoht? It's the Milky Way”
”No, sir, the aurora There it goes; it is spreading right along”
”Then it's the sun going to rise!” cried Steve
”In the north-west, sir? No, it's the aurora; you will see it streaht so;” for, even as he was speaking, sheaves of thin pencils of soft laht away up toward the zenith, then sank, wavered about, and then streaain