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"Oh!" remarked Mivins, who only half understood the meaning of the explanation, "'ow very hodd. But can you tell me, Mr. Saunders, 'ow it is that them 'ere hicebergs is made? Them's wot I don't comprehend no'ow." "Ay," replied Saunders, "there has been many a wiser head than yours, puzzled for a long time about icebergs. But if ye'll use yer eyes you'll see how they are formed.
"Why, ye see, jist before the whale gave in, it sent up a spout o' blood and oil as thick as the main-mast, and, as luck would have it, down it came slap on the head of Grim, drenchin' him from head to foot, and makin' him as red as a lobster." "'Ow did you lose the fish, sir?" enquired Mivins, as our hero sprang up the side, followed by Singleton.
"Och! isn't it a purty sight," remarked O'Riley to Mivins, "to see us all goin' out like good little childers to see the sun rise of a beautiful mornin' like this?" "So it his," answered Mivins, "but I wish it wasn't quite so cold." It was indeed cold so cold that the men had to beat their hands together, and stamp their feet, and rush about like real children, in order to keep their bodies warm.
"Oh, then, but it is cowld!" he exclaimed, wringing the water from his garments. "Och, where's the ball? give me a kick or I'll freeze, so I will." As he spoke, the drenched Irishman seized the ball from Mivins' hands and gave it a kick that sent it high into the air.
'With much pleasure, sir, said Mr. Pickwick; and having executed a very long and solemn shake, he got into bed again. 'My name is Smangle, sir, said the man with the whiskers. 'Oh, said Mr. Pickwick. 'Mine is Mivins, said the man in the stockings. 'I am delighted to hear it, sir, said Mr. Pickwick. 'Hem, coughed Mr. Smangle. 'Did you speak, sir? said Mr. Pickwick.
The second mate sighed. "They are immense accumulations of ice, Mivins, that have been formed by the freezings and meltings of the snows of hundreds of years. They cover the mountains of Norway and Switzerland, and many other places in this world, for miles and miles in extent, and sometimes they flow down and fill up whole valleys.
In fact, we're all at sea, in a riglar muz abut this, an' as Dr Singleton's a syentiffick man, praps he'll give us a leadin' article in your nixt so no more at present from "Yours to command, John Buzzby." This contribution was accompanied with an outline illustration of Mivins eating sugar with a ladle in the pantry, and Davie Summers peeping in at the door both likenesses being excellent.
"Hallo! what's wrong there for'ard?" enquired Saunders, who had been pacing the quarter-deck with slow giant strides, arguing mentally with himself in default of a better adversary. "Only trod on Dumps's paw, sir," said Mivins as he hurried aft; "the men are sky-larking."
"It is very strange," remarked the captain. "Jump down on the ice, boys, and search for footprints. Extend as far as Store Island and see that all is right there." In a few seconds the men scattered themselves right and left, and were lost in the gloom, while the vessel was left in charge of Mivins and four men.
The entertainments were to conclude with a hornpipe from Mivins, but just as that elastic individual had completed the first of a series of complicated evolutions, and was about to commence the second, a vociferous barking of the dogs was heard outside, accompanied by the sound of human voices.
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