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The Boy was flying after when the priest, having caught sight of his face, called out: "Here! Wait! Stop a moment!" and hurried forward. He kicked through the ice-crust, gathered up a handful of snow, and began to rub it on the Boy's right cheek. "What in the name of " The Boy was drawing back angrily.
As he went waddling down the road, snapping through an ice-crust at every step, a roguish wind or perhaps it was one of the bugaboos that were known to haunt the shores of Gravesend Bay snatched off his hat and rolled it into the very doorway of the tavern that he had been warned, under terrible penalties, to avoid.
He stood on a narrow beach by a fair-sized lake. It was ugly to look upon, because it was almost entirely covered with an ice-crust that was blackened and uneven and full of cracks and holes as spring ice generally is. The ice was already breaking up.
A couple of times the wild geese tried to stand on the ice-crust; but one time the wild storm swept them into the water; another time, the merciless seals came creeping up on the ice. At sundown the wild geese were once more up in the air. They flew on fearful for the night. The darkness seemed to come upon them much too quickly this night which was so full of dangers.
Ida Bellethorne seemed as sure-footed as a chamois. Her calks threw bits of ice-crust behind her, and she never slipped nor slid. There was nobody on the road. There was not even the mark of a sledge, although along the ditch were the shuffling prints of snowshoes. Some pedestrian had gone this way in the early morning.
Early in the morning a peasant came by, and when he saw what had happened, he took his wooden shoe, broke the ice-crust to pieces, and carried the Duckling home to his wife. Then it came to itself again. The children wanted to play with it; but the Duckling thought they wanted to hurt it, and in its terror fluttered up into the milk-pan, so that the milk spurted down into the room.
This they exacted in many ways, death in the bad water, through the treacherous ice-crust, by the grip of the grizzly, or a wasting sickness which fell upon a man in his own lodge till he coughed, and the life of his lungs went out through his mouth and nostrils. Likewise did the powers receive sacrifice. It was all one.
Its advent was indicated by the thin ice-crust that covered the beach, the harsh winds, the frost bound soil, and the increasing lurid gloom of the atmosphere; symptoms which made our travellers apprehensive of possible suffering on their road to Odessa, their intended winter-quarters, whence they were distant about 900 versts. It was indeed the worst season for travelling in Russia.
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