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"It's evident that the party have broken down out on the floes, and Fred and Grim have been sent to let us know." "I know it," answered Captain Guy; "a search must be made, and that instantly, if it is to be of any use; but in which direction are we to go is the question. These poor fellows cannot tell us. `Out on the ice to the north' is a wide word.
Some of the seals have a habit, when the sea is frozen over, of cutting holes through the ice with their sharp claws, in order that they may get their heads above the water to breathe, the seals not being able, as I have told you before, to breathe under water, like fish.
Just what they were to look out for Russ and Laddie did not know, but they soon discovered. The ice boat seemed to tilt up on one side, "as if it wanted to stand on its ear," Grandpa Ford said afterward, and out spilled Russ, out spilled Laddie, and Dick, himself, almost spilled out. But he managed to hold fast, which the two boys could not do. Out of the ice boat the lads tumbled.
After watching them for a while as they worked at the meat with their knives, he took a stone axe and hacked at the meat, saying: "That is the way to cut up meat." And this he did although it was forbidden. And on the same day he went out on to the ice and took off his inner coat to shake it, and this he did although it was forbidden.
Everybody's eyes, the three of them, were on Donkin's fingers and the key. Carleton was like a man of stone, motionless, his face set harder than face was ever carved in marble. It grew hot in the room; but Donkin's fingers were like ice on the key, and, strong man though he was, he faltered.
M. Girod-Chantrans determined, from all he saw and heard, that the summer freezing and winter thaw were fables, and he believed that the cave was only an instance of Nature's providing the same sort of receptacle for ice as men provide in artificial ice-houses.
Straightening out his dogs, he drove along the ice for a mile or so before he reached a place that seemed to suit him. When he had found what he thought would do he set to work at once, for the day was now advancing. The spot selected was a solid-looking piece of ice not much longer or wider each way than his dogs and cariole.
"He does not like to touch snow, and he cannot even slide on the ice, and he is afraid to go near that great dog that beautiful wolf-hound." "He is very little," said Osmond. "I am sure I was not as cowardly at his age, now was I, Osmond? Don't you remember?"
The two notes his son wrote during his absence are, perhaps to prove good spirits, full of the delights of skating, which were afforded by the exceptionally severe frost of February 1855, which came opportunely to regale with this favourite pastime one who would never tread on solid ice again.
"No that is, not a real fight. I chased him with some snowballs and he threw a big chunk of ice at me." "Did he hit you?" "No, he he oh, Nan, perhaps I had better tell you. But you must promise not to tell anybody else." "Tell me what?" "Will you promise not to tell?" "Yes," said Nan promptly, for she and her twin brother always trusted each other.
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