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He started in such a hurry toward the ice-hole where his line was set that he fell down. But he did not mind that, and was soon up again. However, Mab, who did not stumble, teached her line first. "Oh dear! I haven't a bite!" she sighed, for her bell was not jingling. "But I have!" cried Hal, pulling his line in. "A big one, too!"
A third visit, in January 1835, gave no results; but on January 21, 1838, the Professor succeeded in determining some very remarkable facts. A depression in the sloping plain is called, par excellence, the ice-hole; and this is surrounded by firs and birches, which grow within three or four fathoms of the edge of the hole, so that the rays of the sun do not reach the hole in winter.
It is called the Ice-hole of Scherisciora, and is described as lying in the Jura-kalk, at a distance of 2-1/2 hours north-east from the forest-house of Distidiul.
At eleven in the morning the temperature was 14° F. in the shade; and snow lay all round the ice-hole, to a thickness of 1-1/2 or 2 feet. The snow which covered the débris was pierced by holes, which could not have been caused by the sun, for its rays did not penetrate the trees; and, indeed, no sun had been visible for some days.
The greatest height of the cave is about 36 feet, and its length 192 feet, with a maximum breadth of 126 feet. Towards the end of autumn, the temperature of the ice-hole rises so much, that the glacial decorations disappear, and various wild animals are driven by the cold of winter to take shelter in the comparative warmth of the cave.
"Well, I hope he'll say something exciting." said Ted. "Think good day to hunt," said Kalitan, as he prepared things for the morning meal. "Where did you get the fish?" asked Ted. "Broke ice-hole and fished when I got up," said the Thlinkit. "You don't mean you have been fishing already," exclaimed the lazy Ted, and Kalitan smiled as he said: "White people like fish.
The peasants shut him up for the night in an empty cloth factory, and the next morning brought him to an ice-hole near the dyke, and began to beg the drummer 'de la Grrrrande Armee' to oblige them; in other words, to swim under the ice.
And the ball leaped and bounded about, and glided through the air as if it were a live thing, and enjoyed the sport as much as the boy-man himself. When he came within hail of the four large men, who were fishing there every day, he cast his ball with such force that it rolled into the ice-hole about which they were busy.
"Oh! oh!! oh!!!" shrieked Edith in mingled fear and excitement, as, at each successive "oh!" she received a jerk that well-nigh pulled her into the ice-hole. "Hold hard!" cried Frank; "now then, haul away." Edith pulled, and so did the fish; but as it was not more than five pounds weight or so, she overcame it after a severe struggle, and landed a white-fish on the ice.
That evening the party supped off fried seal liver and heart, and found them fully up to the standard of excellence expressed by Regnar, who said, "Reindeer steak good beef, ptarmigan good beef, brent good beef, seal liver best beef of all." Before going to bed La Salle cut into the ice-hole, which had been filled some days before with salt water.
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