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It was necessary, however, to give men in their condition a "small taste" at first, so O'Riley had to rest content. Meanwhile the rescue party supped heartily, and, after a little more food had been administered to the half-starved men, preparations were made for spending the night.
"Ah, then, Meetuck!" said O'Riley, shaking his head as they examined their prize, "ye're a hard-hearted spalpeen, ye are, to kill a poor little baby like that in cowld blood. Well, it's yer natur', an' yer trade, so I s'pose it's all right." The weight of this bear, which was not of the largest size, was afterwards found to be above five hundred pounds, and her length was eight feet nine inches.
West had already crawled into his blanket-bag, and was stretched out like a mummy on the floor, and the sound of Meetuck's jaws still continued as he winked sleepily over the walrus-meat, when a scraping was heard outside the hut. "Sure, it's the foxes; I'll go and look," whispered O'Riley, laying down his pipe and creeping to the mouth of the tunnel.
"The biscuit lies beside you, West; don't give in so soon, man." "Thank you, sir; I have about done." "Meetuck, ye haythen, try a bit o' the roast; do now, av it was only to plaze me." Meetuck shook his head quietly, and, cutting a fifteenth lump off the mass of raw walrus that lay beside him, proceeded leisurely to devour it. "The dogs is nothin' to him," muttered O'Riley.
Meetuck held a tin kettle over the flame, till the snow, with which it was filled, melted and became cold water, and then gradually heated until it boiled; and all the while he employed himself in masticating a lump of raw walrus flesh, much to the amusement of Fred, and to the disgust, real or pretended, of O'Riley.
"It's quite purty, it is," remarked O'Riley, in reference to this wreath of hoar-frost, which covered the upper parts of each of them; "it's jist like the ermine that kings and queens wear, so I'm towld, and it's chaper a long way." "I don't know that," said Joseph West.
Buzzby, on being brought thus unexpectedly within reach of the ball, braced up his energies for a kick; but seeing O'Riley coming down towards him like a runaway locomotive, he pulled up, saying quietly to himself, "Ye may take it all yer own way, lad; I'm too old a bird to go for to make my carcass a buffer for a madcap like you to run agin." Jack Mivins, however, was troubled by no such qualms.
"Safe!" cried Fred, as he hauled on the sledge rope to drag it farther out of danger. "So we are," replied O'Riley, breathing very hard; "and it's meself thought to have had a wet skin at this minute. Come, West, lind a hand to fix the dogs, will ye?" A few minutes sufficed to put all to rights and enable them to start afresh.
Fred sank down again instantly: that deadly sleep produced by cold, and from which those who indulge in it never awaken, was upon him. "Sleep!" cried West frantically; "you'll die, sir, if you don't rouse up. Hallo! Meetuck! O'Riley! help! here. "I tell you," murmured Fred faintly, "I want to sleep only a moment or two ah! I see; is the hut finished? Well, well, go, leave me. I'll follow in a "
We must hold on," he said in an eager but subdued voice. "Doubtless it would be pleasant to vent our feelings in a hearty cheer, but it would startle the old gentleman inside. Get along with you, and let us get ready a good supper." "Oh morther!" exclaimed O'Riley, holding on to his sides as if he believed what he said, "me biler'll bust av ye don't let me screech."
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