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Grubless, spiritless, with a lust for home in their hearts, they had been staked by the P. C. Company to cut wood for its steamers, with the promise at the end of a passage home. Disregarding the possibilities of the ice-run, they had fittingly demonstrated their inefficiency by their choice of the island on which they located.
But the wall of ice on top the bank, and extending down into the falling water, remained. The tail of the ice-run passed, and for the first time in six months Daylight saw open water.
Corliss lifted the bow of La Bijou and looked back. The turbid water lashed by on the heels of the ice-run. Courbertin took the stern in the steep descent, and Del marshalled Tommy's reluctant rear. A flat floe, dipping into the water at a slight incline, served as the embarking-stage. "Into the bow with you, Tommy!"
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